Cooking Quotes

Appetite, a universal wolf.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.

Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler

It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.

Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low level for experienced foodies, or don’t offer enough hands-on training.

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking.

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

I love to cook; that's my passion.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

When I'm in the country with all of the kids around and cooking, that's when I'm most relaxed. When I'm in the country I like to cook.

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.

My two rules of cooking: keep it fresh and keep it simple.

As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.

Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

I am a huge fan of Bollywood movies. Whenever I get time, I enjoy watching Hindi movies. Cooking really interests me, so I also experiment with food in my free time.

I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what's in front of me - what's fresh, seasonal - tell me what I'm cooking.

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.

Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.

I do not like people touching my underwear. That's just weird! I travel with a washer and dryer, and I like cooking on the bus, too.

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style... I cook from the soul.

The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!

The world is made of sugar and dirt.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking it.

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.