Cooking Quotes

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

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.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

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

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.

A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

Cooking, I mean, food, cooking foods is just everything that I do from morning to night. It's how I choose to live my life: through cooking, people that are in food culture. And I love it.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.

I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, "Wow, I'm really cooking.

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you?

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked

He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.