Cooking Quotes - Page 15

Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.

Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

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

Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

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

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the limits?

Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene... All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

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

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

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

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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