Cooking Quotes

998 Cooking quotes by 630 unique authors

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. — Alexander Pope
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil,… — Thomas Carlyle
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how… — Oscar Wilde
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add… — Nora Ephron
I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world.… — Jenny Lewis
I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys. — Martin Yan
Advice is like cooking-you should try it before you feed it to others. — Croft M. Pentz
I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy… — Sally Schneider
News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself. — Rose Macaulay
In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't… — Bryan Volpenhein
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do… — Jeremy Northam
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always… — Maureen Forrester
When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the… — Albert Hadley
Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning,… — Charles Barkley
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. — David Dinkins
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try. — Ellen Swallow Richards
Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir. — Leo Rosten
There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does… — Laurie Colwin
The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The… — P.J. O'Rourke
There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat. — Nigel Slater
I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen… — Delia Smith
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight — Delia Smith
Noel [Charles, husband] and I love cooking. He does his cooking and I do mine. I'm the traditional English cook, with a twist now and… — Cynthia Lennon
The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was to be a… — Cynthia Lennon
I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel — Dom DeLuise

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