Cooking Quotes - Page 6

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.

Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.

. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.