Cooking Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Cooking

Cooking Quotes & Sayings

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Love and poor parenting are acceptable topics for any formal meal I make. — Thomm Quackenbush

Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook! — Irma S. Rombauer

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef. — Nathan Myhrvold

Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding. — Surya Das

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. — Phyllis Diller

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

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. — Julia Child

NIKKI: Yep! I'm trying to help her earn a cooking badge for Scouts. Any ideas for a super-EZ brat-proof snack? BRANDON: — Rachel Renee Russell

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong. — Ann Richards

The pig had been killed because spirits, like people, cannot resist the smell of cooking pig. — Peter Matthiessen

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking. — Julia Child

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

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef. — Caleb Followill

Make sure you have cheese in your house. — Hannah Hart

Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer. — Jami Attenberg

When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work. — Alice Waters

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you. — Jamie Oliver

...if you can't find any grappa, half a cup of cough medicine should achieve similar results." [Audrey's advice] — Tom Gleisner

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. — Lao-Tzu

His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it. — Margaret Atwood

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

I don't enjoy cooking when I'm high. And I don't want to be eating garbage because then I'll feel gross. — Ilana Glazer

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles. — Margaret Deland

I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts. — Alain Ducasse

[Ransom] preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of his companions. — C.S. Lewis

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm. — Nadine Velazquez

A dinner made by a great cook is a vision of the world to come. — Patricia Storace

Don't just live your life, set it on fire! — Ginger Sullivan

Calvin: Why are you crying mom?
Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.
Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables. — Bill Watterson

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so. — Tom Paulin

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out. — Ann-Margret

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event. — Martina Mcbride

I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often ... — Lenny Kravitz

In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn. — Bill Buford

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 — Rita Rudner

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck. — Grant Achatz

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking. — Debi Mazar

Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be. — Gwyneth Paltrow

I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything. — Shilpa Shetty

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. — John Milton

I want to make sure the cooking industry becomes more and more diverse. — Marcus Samuelsson

Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki. — Karen Harper

Writing to please all tastes is like cooking without seasoning... — Nanette L. Avery

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet ... — M.F.K. Fisher

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you. — Julia Child

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation
experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way — Paul Theroux

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking. — Curtis Stone

there are now millions of people who spend more time watching food being cooked on television than they spend actually cooking it themselves. — Michael Pollan

Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book! — Claudia Christian

One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows. — Hank Stuever

We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God. — Jonathan Safran Foer

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. — Karen Armstrong

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking. — Leslie White

I like cooking, but I like other people cooking more. — David Wenham

I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French. — David Chang

Gelatins are one of most unbelievable areas in cooking today. — Jose Andres

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena. — Athenaeus

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. — Emeril Lagasse

There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics. — Bryan Volpenhein

Remember!
When you tell a woman that she cooks something very good; you will be fucked by eating it three times a day. — M.F. Moonzajer

He who makes soup of thistles is ill qualified to discuss the savor of a stalled ox.
Chinese Sayings — Helen Evans Brown

The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion. — Jose Andres

If you are working with high quality products, you can elevate the flavors more by cooking it at a low temperature than you can by searing it. — Daniel Humm

Gran follows recipes by looking at picture - to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really. — Simon Cheshire

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

If god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers. — Linda Henley

I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Since I was about seven, I've loved cooking. I'd wake up at five in the morning and make cinnamon rolls and all these different things. — Jane Chen

I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture. — Blake Lively

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver

Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion ... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work. — Richard Clarke Cabot

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot. — Nobu Matsuhisa

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years. — Daniel Boulud

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving. — Christine Lagarde

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one. — Lemony Snicket

Good use of time is the universal ingredient in cooking a palatable dish - doesn't matter if you are baking, boiling, frying, brewing, or grilling. — Pawan Mishra

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile. — Ted Allen

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. — Alexander Pope

Pork and chicken grease, the aromatics of choice for the Cajun. — Ken Wheaton

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be. — Alton Brown

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts. — Fannie Farmer

I like eating, cooking and shopping. It all goes together. — Kyle MacLachlan

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast. — Dolly Parton

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking. — Paulo Coelho

I had always been told cooking was a servant's job. — Michael Mina

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few. — Theognis Of Megara

Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity. — China Mieville

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. — Grant Achatz

I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste. — Nicole Trunfio

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. — Erma Bombeck

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe. — Mary-Kate Olsen

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

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering. — Nigella Lawson

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home. — Shah Rukh Khan

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson

No, I don't want you to leave. I'm just grabbing your coat and nudging your toward the door for fun #AHOLE — A.O. Storm

When I have time, I really enjoy cooking. — Kevin Whately

Being a humble person, she gave her pie shop a humble name - PIE. — Sarah Weeks

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy. — Julia Child