Cooking Quotes

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. (Julia Child)
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. View quote
Julia Child
I often went to bed without supper 'cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat. View quote
Maurice Sendak
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for. View quote
Sophia Loren
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress. View quote
Jennifer Garner
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. View quote
Julia Child
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. View quote
Julia Child
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. View quote
Maurice de Vlaminck
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. View quote
Fawn M. Brodie
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. (Harriet Van Horne)
Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell. View quote
Paula Deen
Economic growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking. New recipes produce fewer unpleasant side effects and generate more economic value per unit of raw material. View quote
Paul Romer
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. View quote
Sarah Zettel
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. View quote
Phyllis Diller
My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking. View quote
Bethenny Frankel
Great cooking favors the prepared hands. 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
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. View quote
Louise Brown
The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff. View quote
Sally Schneider
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore. (Thomas Keller)
Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't. View quote
Gérard Depardieu
I like being at home and cooking. View quote
Shania Twain
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor. View quote
W. H. Auden
With the right of the scientist to investigate most aspects of the material universe, most persons will agree; but there are some who have questioned the applicability of scientific methods to an investigation of human sexual behavior.... It is as though the dietician and biochemist were denied the right to analyze foods and the processes of nutrition, because the cooking and proper serving of food may be rated a fine art, and because the eating of certain foods has been considered a matter for religious regulation. View quote
Alfred Kinsey