Alive Quote by Chuck Close

It's like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works for you…

— Carole Bouquet

I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.

— Thomas Keller

Mastering one recipe is better than mastering too many. Learn something and own it, and you'll feel so much better about it. You'll have…

— Tom Douglas

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

— Paul Prudhomme

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

— Urbain Dubois

When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.

— Alice Waters

If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.

— Danielle Trussoni

Think of how much time it takes to prepare and eat a single meal. Then multiply that by seven. I wish I had my…

— Brian Shaw

My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes,…

— Jamie Oliver

People only ever cook nine meals in rotation, so we put a survey out to see what people wanted to eat. People said they…

— Dave Myers

Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable.

— Tom Douglas

Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.

— Mario Batali