Cooking Quotes

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish than who's cooking it and why.

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.

Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

I love fruit, when it is expensive.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

I don't really cook meat. I eat a bit of seafood but I'm not really into meat and the idea of cooking it is pretty intense.

The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.

I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

Conservatives claim [Hillary] Clinton campaign involved in satanic 'spirit cooking'.

It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.

Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.

The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

"Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.

You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.

During the holidays it's like cooking central time so keeping it safe is an important part.

The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.

Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets.

My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.

I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together.

Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show.

Cooking? Oh we were great, you'd take anything and melt cheese on it, and the one who could guess what it was didn't have to wash up!

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

Food that's beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn't.

Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.

The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking.

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.