Cooking Quotes - Page 29

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

How do they taste? They taste like more.

My dad was in the Navy, so we moved around a lot. That led to me seeing myriad cultures and cuisines. I have been excited about eating and cooking for as long as I can remember.

It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don't deal with climate change.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.