Cooking Quotes

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to the kitchen - but nobody ever wanted me to touch anything.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

I enjoy cooking for people I am close to.

Wine enlivens the human soul.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time and ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.

When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from.

Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.

Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.

The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

Talking to other people while you're cooking, it doesn't come naturally.

Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up.

When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.

One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.

We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.

Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.

I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.

I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like making the bed.

I don't enjoy cooking when I'm high. And I don't want to be eating garbage because then I'll feel gross.

Cooking can be like foreplay.

I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower, Never had a girlfriend the color of cooking flour.