Cooking Quotes

Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party.

Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.

I would love to go on MasterChef. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

Cooking today is far greater than it ever was, and more importantly, a chef's role today has changed dramatically over the last decade.

I never met a Cab I didn't like.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!

Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.

I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away. Plus, I love to cook. I'm one of those people who stay in the kitchen standing while everything is cooking, checking on everything.

I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.

I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.

Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

I love cooking but I still always go and sneak a little bit of sides from Boston Market, and it's so good. They're so good.

If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this would have to be it.

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good, the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

I hate cooking. But I do make the candied yams every year at Thanksgiving. And they're awesome! You could definitely get diabetes and cavities from them, but they're delicious!

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.

I watch the Food Network with my kids. We - yeah, I - I - I generally don't admit that, but I love cooking.

I think my family, especially having three teenage sons, keeps my cooking at home grounded and very approachable. I'm definitely not making spumas in my kitchen, that's for sure!

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words.

If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.