Cooking Quotes - Page 4

Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

I'm a homebody. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick

If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not.

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

Nourishment is not just “nutrition.” Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the table, the love and inspiration in the cooking, and the joy of the entire eating experience.

In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.

Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

Cooking is the ultimate giving!

Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.

Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.