Cook Quotes

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. (G. K. Chesterton)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time. View quote
Kiran Desai
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. View quote
W. C. Fields
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. View quote
Salvador Dalí
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. View quote
Anton Chekhov
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either. View quote
Michio Kushi
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. (E. O. Wilson)
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. View quote
Julia Child
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. View quote
Julia Child
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook? View quote
Frances Mayes
You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique. View quote
Jacques Pepin
Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different. View quote
Jacques Pepin
Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating. View quote
Jacques Pepin
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. View quote
Laurie Colwin
I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish. View quote
Nana Mouskouri
You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it. View quote
Sally Schneider
I am pretty health-conscious, so when my girlfriend and/or I make dinner--no, I don't have a cook!--we choose the healthier options: lean meats, steamed veggies, fish, etc. Of course, there are always those cravings for the "bad foods" that I do give in to once in a while! (Tiger Woods)
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a women who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's the wife who can't and will. View quote
Robert Frost
Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things. View quote
Dolly Parton
I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation. View quote
Ali Larter
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