Cooking Quotes · Page 39

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

— L. M. Boyd

“Life is no different than cooking and to make a great meal, be a great cook!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

— Waverley Root

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

I derive a lot of joy from cooking. Had cooking been a mandatory task, I probably would have felt differently about it.

— Anubhav Sinha

I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.

— Dennis Basso

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other…

— Julia Child

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

— Victor Hugo

Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to…

— Gyles Brandreth

The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more…

— Ryan Adams

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere…

— Nicholas Kurti

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine…

— Julia Child

“Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman." [Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.] ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I like coming back home. Do it every July Fourth. Everybody's cooking, and I'm just being Ben, just Ben, like the little…

— Ben Wallace

When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now,…

— Meryl Streep

“During this hour in the waking streets I felt at ease, at peace; my body, which I despised, operated like a machine.…

— Alice Jamieson

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself…

— Bill Nighy

Really the only motivation is through deliciousness; cooking great food that people want to eat again. I want them all to achieve…

— Richard Blais

I find cooking very sensual. I love getting in there with my hands instead of utensils. With all of the textures and…

— Jacqueline Obradors

I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking - a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for steel-cut oats. I…

— John Mackey

Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our…

— Ferran Adria

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind,…

— James Boswell

Cooking is a dangerous thing for me. I'm pretty inept in the kitchen.

— Billie Lourd

“If you can boil it, steam it or braise it.. you can pressure cook it!”

— Laura Pazzaglia

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

— Craig Claiborne

I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.

— Olivia Wilde

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

— William Shakespeare

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

— Ferran Adria

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

— Anonymous

“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

— Bill Gates

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

— Jim Harrison

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

— Julia Child

And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.

— John Betjeman

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

— Jewel

I'm a bit of a dynamite fisherman when it comes to cooking as I don't have the patience, but I am a…

— Alexander Gilkes

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

— David Dinkins

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

— Daniel Boulud