Cooking Quotes

998 Cooking quotes by 630 unique authors

What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect. It’s too bad there’s no… — Josh Lanyon
She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering… — Henry Rollins
Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥ — Paulo Coelho
Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said. "I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but… — Cassandra Clare
Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident… — Robert Farrar Capon
Sentinel meeting tonight,” Ria told her. “At Lucas's place.” “Time?” ... “Seven. Sascha's doing dinner.” “God save us all.” Sascha had decided she liked cooking.… — Nalini Singh
Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through… — Nora Roberts
The smell of cooking food is often a calming one. — Daniel Handler
Maybe I should do this for y-" (Samantha) "No, I'm cooking. If you want to be helpful, you can bring me my wine. I poured… — Lynsay Sands
...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. — Julia Child
Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general… — Robert Jordan
Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate. — Patricia Briggs
I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He… — Chris Cleave
I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it. — Steven Wright
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of… — Amos Oz
[The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on… — Jeanne Birdsall
Life is a combination of magic and pasta. — Federico Fellini
The way you make an omelet reveals your character. — Anthony Bourdain
Cooking isn’t taught,” Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?” I pressed the… — Becca Fitzpatrick
The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper. — Ben Aaronovitch
I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a… — Suzanne Collins
This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an assassin… — Jennifer Estep
Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has… — Thomas Keller
IMBECILE!" the chef shouted. "Next time why don't you just put your whole HAND in the food, hey? Yes, your whole hand, or maybe your… — Kenneth Oppel
Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than… — Neil Gaiman

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