Cooking Quotes

I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.

Cooking a dish is fine; cooking it under pressure is a completely different ballgame.

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

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

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

Cooking can cure almost anything.

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

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.

I'm really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now - but you'll never catch me being boring.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

I miss my wife's cooking - as often as I can.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!

The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.

My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.

I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.

Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

What I go for in my cooking is sinful, bold and real.

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

I guess I fell into cooking.

There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

my wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.