Cooking Quotes - Page 10

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

I know my limit. I just keep passing out before I reach it.

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. And the way African men treat African women is total unacceptable.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed.

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Cooking done with care is an act of love.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥

I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.

I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments - mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives.

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.