Cooking Quotes

998 Cooking quotes by 630 unique authors

I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully,… — Herman Melville
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked… — Charles Dickens
You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking. — Julia Child
Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time. — Germaine Greer
If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must… — Nora Ephron
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot… — M.F.K. Fisher
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a… — Thomas Keller
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. — L. M. Boyd
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the… — Jonathan Swift
Although the cooking of food presents some unsolved problems, the quick warming of cooked food and the thawing of frozen food both open up some… — Chauncey Guy Suits
Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support the argument that… — Unknown Author
The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook. — Hector Hugh Munro
Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it. — Laozi
When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. — John Harington
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere
To cook your hare you must first catch it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is… — Dogen
He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. — Paramahansa Yogananda
...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that… — Michael Pollan
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served… — Michael Pollan
In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know - "relationship marketing," as… — Michael Pollan
No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same… — Unknown Author
If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason;… — John of Ruysbroeck
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. — William Wordsworth
The perpetual struggle for room and food. — Thomas Malthus

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