Cooking Quotes · Page 41

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

— Blake Lively

I was always interested in cooking; it was always a hobby of mine.

— Steve Ells

The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

— Fran Lebowitz

The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.

— Anonymous

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

— Henry Austin Dobson

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

— Martin Yan

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

— Norman Douglas

We're always asked the same three questions. If we're on our own we get, 'Where's your mate, then?' If we're in a…

— Dave Myers

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

— Marcel Boulestin

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the…

— Dogen

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition…

— Rex Stout

The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people…

— Ogden Nash

I got the desire to cook from an early age when I saw my mother cooking, but then my mother did not…

— Chef Damu

Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said -…

— Laurence Sterne

When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain.…

— Michael Pollan

In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the…

— Clive James

Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked…

— Bert Greene

...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be…

— Henry Fielding

From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The mental disposition of the one who prepares the food is transmitted to all those who consume it. Therefore, as far as…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he…

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

“Now alongside Scovell, John eased preserved peaches out of galliot pots of syrup and picked husked walnuts from puncheons of salt. He…

— Lawrence Norfolk

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

— Laurie Colwin

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

— Henry James

This shared love of cooking and celebration has allowed me to create a strong bond with my family.

— Camila Alves

Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

— Thomas Jefferson

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

— Robert Stack

I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

— Robert A. Burton

Living on the road can make you feel quite displaced. Cooking a meal on the tour bus for everyone makes it home.

— Grace Potter

I don't just loving cooking in a vacuum, as it were; I love cooking for people, with people, and laughing.

— Ainsley Harriott

“How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish.”

— Susan May Warren

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”

— H.L. Mencken

One way I get my kids to try new things is by cooking with them.

— Ayesha Curry

I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party.

— Christopher Kimball

I got rid of all of my non-stick pots and pans, anything that had a kind of toxic surface in terms of…

— Anna Getty

“My favorite hobby is cooking and eating. There is nothing i can do well if i have not eaten well.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her…

— Zulay Henao