Cooking Quotes · Page 36

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

— Tyler Florence

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

— Siobhan Fahey

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

— Alton Brown

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

— James Beard

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

— Maya Angelou

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

— Woody Allen

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

— Monica Baldwin

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

— Graham Greene

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent…

— Cheryl Ladd

I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured…

— Gordon Ramsay

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any…

— Mary Antin

Cooking is one of those things that is universal to people. And any time you can teach somebody a way to connect…

— Damaris Phillips

Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a…

— Patrick Duffy

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give…

— Della Reese

By the time you're in your 30s, unless somebody makes the god-awful decision to gift you with a cooking class or salsa…

— Mary H.K. Choi

I did want to share with you one of the greatest lessons I've learned over the years cooking for my kids -…

— Michael Mina

The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against…

— Gilbert Murray

In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have…

— A. J. Liebling

He'd woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them: sausage and pancakes shaped like…

— Patricia Briggs

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants…

— Barbara Pym

If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra…

— Nora Ephron

[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too.…

— Jon Gordon

“Tina, who clearly had it in mind to dazzle her new husband in the kitchen, wanted desperately to learn the secrets of…

— Brian O'Reilly

“Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is…

— Michael Pollan

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

— Joseph Addison

This is X-treme Chinese Cooking. X-citing, X-otic and X-traordinary.

— Alvin Leung

Cooking grits and riding dick. Swear she the best chef around. Pop that p*ssy, now let me see you doo doo brown.

— Tyga

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

— M. F. K. Fisher

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

— Mo Ibrahim

Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store.

— Blake Lively

Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.

— Anonymous

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

— Elizabeth Robins Pennell

If I'm not driving my children somewhere, I'm cooking for them.

— Tess Daly

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

— Epictetus

Ideally, we should be controlling what we eat by cooking for ourselves.

— David Kirsch

I like cooking - I make a good stir-fry and the family likes it when I make stewed chicken and macaroni and…

— Marion Jones

Who says I can't cook? You've obviously never tasted my cereal!

— Anonymous

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

— Isabella Beeton

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

— Caleb Followill

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

— John Milton