Cooking Quotes

998 Cooking quotes by 630 unique authors

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story. — Jose Andres
If you think well, you cook well. — Ferran Adria
Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all. — Harriet Van Horne
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate… — Walter Savage Landor
A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament. — Marcel Boulestin
Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. — P.J. O'Rourke
Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it. — Phyllis Diller
Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate...you can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion. — Alain Ducasse
Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene. All immigrants bring exotic… — Daniel Pipes
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat… — Laurie Colwin
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person… — Laurie Colwin
I was born with a lot of horsepower. There was a lot cooking inside me, a lot of energy, and Dad was a strong man… — Richard Boone
I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking,… — Johnny Griffin
Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking. — Marcel Boulestin
Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is… — Mick Dodson
Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell… — Ron Ben-Israel
You can cook when you're hungry or cook to make a living or to feel creative or even just as a distraction, but cooking for… — Kim Severson
Since there is an assumption that a lot of models ‘starve themselves’ to stay thin, I always find it both funny and shocking when people… — Robyn Lawley
But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity,… — Eddie Huang
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture. — Mason Cooley
It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning… — Steve Almond
Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference! — Josef Albers
In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life. — Fernand Point
It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If… — Andrew Schneider

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