Cooking Quotes

998 Cooking quotes by 630 unique authors

The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent… — Anais Nin
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. — Anthony Bourdain
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the… — Barbara Kingsolver
fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows — Ani DiFranco
If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good.… — John Irving
Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and… — Katherine Anne Porter
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need. — Julia Child
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver
Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner — Ruth Reichl
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. — William Shakespeare
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
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. — Hector Hugh Munro
In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to… — Joanne Harris
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way — Paul Theroux
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove. — M.F.K. Fisher
But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the… — Gloria Whelan
Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room… — Chuck Palahniuk
The man you love cooking for you is good for you too. — Ana Castillo
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen — Rita Rudner
And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into… — Mark Haddon
Like last year I took Advance Foods class (which is like cooking for nerds) after lunch, and so I usually took a nap. Which was… — Christopher Moore
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator:… — Julian Barnes
Hunger is the best sauce in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes

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