Cooking Quotes

998 Cooking quotes by 630 unique authors

When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of… — Thomas Keller
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of… — Michael Pollan
It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to… — Deb Caletti
I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put… — Tasha Tudor
Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have… — John Green
Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can.… — Douglas Coupland
Huh - Why is Max in the kitchen?" Dr.Martinez: "We're cooking." Gazzy: "She's just keeping you company, right?" Dr.Martinez: "No, she's cooking." Nudge: "Cooking...food?" Max:… — James Patterson
Maybe we ought to look at a guy's response to our microwave from now on." Aunt Annie said. Really." Mom said. "The narcissist looks at… — Deb Caletti
I ate her cooking for eighteen years," he whispered. "You get used to it." "Oh yeah, when?" "I think it happened around the seventeenth year,"… — Michael Buckley
Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small… — Christopher Isherwood
I do have some leftover chicken and pasta. (Grace) And wine?...That’s acceptable (Julian) Look, buster, I’m not your cooking wench. Mess with me and I’ll… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
At one O'Clock, Miss Celia comes in the kitchen and says she's ready for her first cooking lesson. She settles on a stool. She's wearing… — Kathryn Stockett
. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a… — Swami Satchidananda
I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing… — Gabrielle Zevin
Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. — Cassandra Clare
Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way. — Truman Capote
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise… — Barbara Kingsolver
Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how… — Nora Ephron
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I think every woman should have a blowtorch. — Julia Child
One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to… — Julia Child
The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little… — Barbara Pym
I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about… — Cassandra Clare

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