Cooking Quotes - Page 19

Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.

In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.

I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.

When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.