Cooking Quotes · Page 54

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

— William Shakespeare

If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You…

— Hilaire Belloc

One pillar of my cooking is that salad dressing is sacred and that you always make it with the most delicious oil…

— Samin Nosrat

Whatever I do, whether it's cooking shows, books or events, the details count and that's what sets me apart from other food…

— Rachel Khoo

Bass players and drummers are like brothers, working in the basement, cooking up the groove. If they don't lock together with the…

— John Densmore

For me the best food in the world is New British. It's quite classical cooking with really simple but good-quality ingredients. I…

— Prue Leith

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and…

— Andy Rooney

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it…

— Anthony Bourdain

Almost everyone who loves to cook has at least one recipe handed down to them from a member of their family or…

— Melissa Leong

I found great rewards in cooking a dish and feeding it to someone. It was a means of communicating. I was giving…

— Lidia Bastianich

“Fukuoka, more than any other city in Japan, is responsible for ramen's rocket-ship trajectory, and the ensuing shift in Japan's cultural identity…

— Matt Goulding

I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that…

— Paula Deen

I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use…

— Jack Monroe

Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi…

— Michael Pollan

I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that…

— Ben Fountain

I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of…

— Sasha Cohen

There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning…

— Tim Gunn

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

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

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 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

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

Cooking is a form of flattery…a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and…

— Plato

Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On…

— Craig Claiborne

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then…

— Fernand Point

But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday…

— Lord Byron

I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

— Werner Herzog

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

Oh, I'm a brilliant cook, I see baking as a very different thing. I can cook savoury things - cooking is just…

— Lucy Beaumont

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 used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's…

— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to…

— George Nelson

It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the…

— Calvin Trillin