Cooking Quotes

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.

I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life.

If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

Cooking a fantastic meal is therapeutic. I like the entire process-the chopping, the stirring. At the end, hopefully you get to enjoy a great meal with a friend or loved one.

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest thing I do.

Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.

Sometimes while you're cooking it's messy but the outcome is good. The end result is all that counts.

I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

Hunger is never delicate.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

In the art game we do our own cooking.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

I love to mix things up and create new dishes in the kitchen. I love cooking shrimp scampi and having a glass of Pinot Grigio while listening to music.

I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.