Cooking Quotes - page 3

When I used to have a show on French TV, people would ask me how my jacket stayed spotless while cooking. Your whole area has to be clean - and you have to keep it that way. (Joel Robuchon)
The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things. View quote
Yotam Ottolenghi
My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes. View quote
Alton Brown
I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food. View quote
Leah LaBelle
I found great rewards in cooking a dish and feeding it to someone. It was a means of communicating. I was giving part of my talent or my gift and sharing it with somebody, making somebody happy. And it gave a lot back to me, and I wanted to do more and more. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift. View quote
Laurie Colwin
I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking. View quote
James Beard
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. View quote
Ina Garten
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores. View quote
Adam Gopnik
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. View quote
David Dinkins
Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe. (Linda McCartney)
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens. View quote
Alma Guillermoprieto
Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go. View quote
Anne Burrell
Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking. View quote
Billy Campbell
In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.' View quote
Bryan Volpenhein
While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set. View quote
Barton Seaver
I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick. View quote
Chandra Wilson
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator. View quote
Cheryl Hines
My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick. View quote
Cheryl Ladd
Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book! (Claudia Christian)
I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home. View quote
Colm Meaney
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. View quote
Craig Claiborne
Are you casting asparagus on my cooking? View quote
Curly Howard
Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for. View quote
David Chang