Cooking Quotes - Page 7

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

If you think well, you cook well.

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

Beef is the soul of cooking.

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

The way you make an omelet reveals your character.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal.

Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.

I love being at home and cooking and baking.