Cooking Quotes - Page 3

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else."

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Hunger is not debatable.

Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy.

I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat.

I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.