Cooking Quotes

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

Grub first, then ethics.

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

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

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

Never apologize for your cooking.

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often . . .

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants

I'm very open about the fact that I'm a big fan of day drinking. I also love cooking. I cook all day, and I have to have something in my hand while I'm doing that.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

Chefs today choose to step onto that treadmill where they have to be seen. Every day they have to go to this party, they have to go to that party. But then you think "Who is doing the cooking?".

In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

My way of communicating love and interest in people is through cooking. I grew up in an environment where food was really celebrated, and that gave me the message: food makes people happy.

Take care to chop the onion fine.

There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.