Again Quote by Julia Child

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

— Julia Child

On TV, I really try to go back to the basics and break down a recipe until it's very easy.

— Jacques Torres

I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it…

— Blake Lively

It's always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done.

— Guy Fieri

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

— Tom Colicchio

After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

— Jose Garces

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

— Paul Prudhomme

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

— Alice Waters

A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it.…

— Gail Simmons

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

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't…

— Jacques Pepin