Cooking Quotes

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate...you can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion.

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

Everybody talks about the internet being the ultimate repository of cooking knowledge. But it's not. It sucks.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Hands are our earliest tools. Cooking starts with the hands which are so sensitive that when they touch something they transmit messages to your brain about texture and temperature.

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight

Mustard's no good without roast beef.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.

The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the limits?

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are

No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome.