Cooking Quotes

998 Cooking quotes by 630 unique authors

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. — Orson Welles
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing… — Ida B. Wells
I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do. — Vivienne Westwood
I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do. — Betty White
I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend… — Prince William
I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking. — Kate Winslet
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. — Virginia Woolf
If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for… — will.i.am
So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick… — Martin Yan
I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a… — Martin Yan
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. — Henny Youngman
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. — Lin Yutang
Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the… — Julian Baggini
Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do?… — Evgeny Morozov
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food — Erma Bombeck
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. — Julia Child
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your… — Robert Farrar Capon
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good… — James Beard
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. — Robert Frost
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. — Craig Claiborne
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. — Julia Child
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer… — Wystan Hugh Auden
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. — William Wordsworth
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. — David Mamet

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