Cooking Quotes
Those who waste bread will be condemned to as many years in purgatory as the number of crumbs wasted and will have to pick those crumbs up, one by one, with their eyelids.
Food keeps us alive, as we all know. Nourishment allows us to grow and be healthy. But good cooking takes us beyond survival and into the realms of culture and pleasure.
As life is a breath, savoring is a held exhale, a placeholder for joy.
Food is what I love, and how I communicate love, and how I calm myself.
Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan.
I've swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark, inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.
The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson.
Cooking is not a science but an art, mistakes are okay, messes are fine—the pleasure is in the creating and the sharing of the result.
No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is
I still have my little red hardcover notebook—spine now held in place by packing tape, pages dotted with cooking stains—filled with her loving instructions for mandelbrot, nut cake, and strudel.
Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket
Maybe your mind won't remember what I cooked last week, but your body will.
I had a dream about you last night. You were at my door. We had forgotten what we used to fight about. So, I let you in and we made coconut pancakes like it was the very first time.
Pork and chicken grease, the aromatics of choice for the Cajun.
Keep it simple, keep it tasty. Salt, pepper and garlic. Shallot another day, lemon grass for nextweek. Nutmeg and cinnamon every now and then.
I'll go further and say she was one of the best cooks in the world! The compimentary expression, "This food will make you slap yo' Aint Emma" was apt in her case.
In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it, gather ingredients and labor over its creation.
I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.
Food commonly eaten for more than 150 years should be innocent until proven guilty, and food invented in the last 150 years is guilty until proven innocent.
A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman
Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven, And imprint forever upon our heartsThat this is homeand that we are loved.
Technology is too crazy for me, but I would be very happy when they make phone that can cook.
In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. "The trick is moderation, " he said.
While some people are good at painting, playing an instrument or singing, I have been told more than once I am good at storytelling. I hope that you enjoy my stories as I recall them.
Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.
. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.
To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.
Cooking is great, but the meal that has been prepared for you with love is the best.
Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
We may live without friends we may live without books But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
I feel like communication is the same whether you're cooking for someone or singing or writing a song or writing a play or ordering from McDonald's.
My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.
At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.
I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen... I don't think I have the patience for cooking.
I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.
Someday, I plan to buy a house in Goa, do only one movie a year, and spend the rest of time painting, learning how to cook, cooking for friends, and doing yoga.
You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.
I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.