Cooking Quotes · Page 42

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

— Anthony Warlow

Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your…

— William Katt

I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.

— Blake Lively

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

— George Carlin

“Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.”

— John Kennedy Toole

I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - its authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

— Sullivan Stapleton

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

— Anthony Bourdain

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at…

— Mimi Sheraton

If you want to think about cooking, and it's a high-five, laid back motion, then flip burgers and dress Caesar salad, don't…

— Gordon Ramsay

Some days my husband Derek and I barely have time for a conversation about anything apart from the business of life -…

— Kate Garraway

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy,…

— Deb Caletti

I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't…

— Amy Sedaris

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

When I'm in the country with all of the kids around and cooking, that's when I'm most relaxed. When I'm in the…

— Kate Moss

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb…

— Kingsley Amis

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral…

— Benjamin Franklin

If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour…

— Idries Shah

I got used to certain things that normal kids don't get used to, like, when my mother went into the kitchen for…

— Mariette Hartley

I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up…

— Debra Hamel

In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother…

— Marcus Samuelsson

There are many different types of people that end up coming to me and saying 'Yeah I want to cook.' Some of…

— Paul Rankin

Lemon curd is one of the first things I remember cooking when I was old enough to use the stove without supervision.…

— Claire Saffitz

My sister would say I'm a feeder because I like cooking for people.

— Tamara Ecclestone

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

— Anonymous

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

— William Wordsworth

Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations.

— Frank Delaney

I baked the coffee cake recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' over and over again when I was a kid.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

— Julia Child

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

— Beverley Baxter

By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5.

— Michael Beasley

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

— Julia Child

If youre serious about cooking, baking, or life in general, then you need a scale.

— Sohla El-Waylly

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

— Brendan Behan

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

— Ann-Margret

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

— Moliere

In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

— Marcel Boulestin