Cooking Quotes · Page 44

“He who makes soup of thistles is ill qualified to discuss the savor of a stalled ox. Chinese Sayings”

— Helen Evans Brown

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness...

— Ted Allen

I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower, Never had a girlfriend the color of cooking flour.

— J-Ro

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

— Gabriel Iglesias

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

— Michel de Montaigne

Cooking is about the ingredients and responding, but risotto, specifically, is about the technique.

— Lidia Bastianich

The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.

— Kate O'Mara

I have a great time cooking and eating Thai green chicken curry.

— Akshay Kumar

Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this…

— Mario Batali

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I…

— Todd English

When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song…

— Paul Rodgers

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

— George Carlin

British cookbook author Elizabeth David led the most adventurous life but is widely credited with bringing to the fore the importance of…

— Melissa Leong

When it was availed to me that I had free time, I chose to go to cooking school every day, six hours…

— Teri Hatcher

I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest…

— Nigella Lawson

I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher…

— Queen Latifah

I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber,…

— H. L. Mencken

Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human…

— Robert Heller

“Looks delicious," he lied. "A mite crispy along the edges - but then, I like it that way." Incredulous eyes met his…

— Tracy Anne Warren

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to…

— Paul Newman

“It's not about exact measurements or ingredients', shrugged Lomax, when Joseph complained. 'Good food is about feeling. Cooking is an art, not…

— Alex George

Possibly I want to bring my acting into the cooking, blending the two together. What I love is cooking for other people…

— Jeremy Miller

When I went to the Oscars - the only time I've ever been to the Oscars - a few years ago, I…

— Carey Mulligan

If I were to tell you that I'm the one who does all the cooking, you'd interpret it as me trying to…

— Kristina Schroder

Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

— William Penn

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini...

— Mae West

An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

— Oliver Herford

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, Well, thats not going…

— Uknown

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

— James Cromwell

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

— Barbara Kingsolver

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

— Ambrose Bierce

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

— Paul Bocuse

You never know which meal is gonna be your last especially when you are cooking.

— Amosfrank973

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

— John Densmore

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

— Wendi Deng Murdoch

To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.

— Jeff Goodell

I didn't cook that much as a kid. My mother was cooking, and I was her helper. We made dishes together.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.

— Ferran Adria

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

— Ann Richards