Challenges Quote by Julie Powell

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

— Stephen King

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade…

— Paula Deen

Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's food. It was amazing because…

— Debi Mazar

I derive a lot of joy from cooking. Had cooking been a mandatory task, I probably would have felt differently about it.

— Anubhav Sinha

Cooking has always sort of been my way to soothe the soul, if you will. I grew up around my great-great-grandmother cooking, and that's…

— Gina Neely

I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated…

— Grant Achatz

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

— Thomas Keller

The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest…

— Edward Jenner

Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked…

— Flavor Flav

I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some…

— Kate Christensen

I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.

— Dom DeLuise

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

— Eric Ripert