Cooking Quotes

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell.

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can't beat brats.

Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.

I will not go a day without coconut oil. I personally take four tablespoons per day, either on my salads, in my cooking or in my cups of green tea.

The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.

Cooking done with care is an act of love.

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.