Cooking Quotes

998 Cooking quotes by 630 unique authors

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking. — Clement Freud
I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll… — Si Robertson
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the… — Andre Simon
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance. — E. V. Lucas
It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling… — Saint John Chrysostom
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior… — Steve Albini
The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way,… — Gilbert Arenas
While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating. — Jens Voigt
The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully… — Carleton S. Coon
If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before… — Benoite Groult
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social… — Marie-Antoine Careme
She did not so much cook as assassinate food. — Storm Jameson
She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in… — Janet Flanner
The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us… — Unknown Author
My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up… — Unknown Author
Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.… — Waverley Root
The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If… — Eliza Acton
Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one. — William Least Heat-Moon
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities… — Isabella Beeton
Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is… — David Liederman
Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of… — George Ellwanger
Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the… — Curnonsky
This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never… — William Makepeace Thackeray

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