Cooking Quotes - Page 18

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

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

It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, "Wow, I'm really cooking.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

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

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

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.

Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

Sometimes while you're cooking it's messy but the outcome is good. The end result is all that counts.

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.

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

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.