Cooking Quotes - Page 16

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

Never apologize for your cooking.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; and there we must abide, onefold, empty of ourselves, and free from images, lifted up by love into the simple bareness of our intelligence.

When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

I'm very open about the fact that I'm a big fan of day drinking. I also love cooking. I cook all day, and I have to have something in my hand while I'm doing that.

When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself being resentful of the idea; "Now you will make a good wife. You can cook, right?" So when people ask me I go, "No, I don't like cooking!"

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.

I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.

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

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

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

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

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.