Cooking Quotes

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but...

I do not like people touching my underwear. That's just weird! I travel with a washer and dryer, and...

Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooki...

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper,...

Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being l...

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone t...

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

Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be com...

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a gr...

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it make...

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers...

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't ...

My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and p...

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue th...

Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was wil...

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, goi...

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.

God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.

God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.

God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.

God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.

God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.

God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close...

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell atti...

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we ...

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

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

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

But my favorite remained the basic roast chicken. What a deceptively simple dish. I had come to beli...

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art...

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. ...

When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell...

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

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

Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is change...

Fanfare for the MakersA cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what?To the small fire that never leaves the...

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

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian i...

I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your di...

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than prepari...

Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cult...

If you stand in a wheat field at this time of year, a few weeks from harvest, it's not hard to imagi...

Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

The kernels of wheat entered the aperture virtually in single file, as if passing between a thumb an...

The quest for an ever-whiter shade of bread, which goes all the way back to the Greeks and Romans, i...

In ancient Greece, the word for "cook," "butcher," and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the ...

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of inte...

I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running....

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a che...

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I woul...

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cookin...

Wandering across the vast room, I stopped at a set of shelves as high as the ceiling, and holding ab...

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much l...

A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the wo...

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought ...

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking d...

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It'...

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.

I am a miserable cook but an extremely talented eater.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much...

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any...

Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garli...

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything g...

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, mise...

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchw

Calvin: Why are you crying mom?Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you a...