Able Quote by Shirley Chung

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our…

— Mario Batali

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

— Anna Held

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a…

— Bobby Flay

I cooked for the two Popes that were here. Pope Francis I cooked for and Pope Benedict before him. Pope Benedict is German. And…

— Lidia Bastianich

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

— Martha Stewart

My mom wasn't a good cook. No, that was an understatement. She was really horrible. And in a Chinese family, that's a disaster.

— Alvin Leung

I've been very fortunate, because I've cooked for a lot of actors and actresses and musicians. I've cooked for presidents and I've been to…

— Emeril Lagasse

Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.

— Joe Bastianich

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

— Anubhav Sinha

I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.

— Vicki Lawrence

In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Well, I grew up in Switzerland where my parents were immigrant workers, but my whole family are very good cooks - my father also.…

— Roberto Di Matteo