Cooking Quotations | Page 6

I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work.

I'm optimistic about this one, since we've never had a show in this area before, I think it'll be a great opportunity for mothers, daughters and friends to come together and see some of the great recipes that Taste of Home Cooking School has to offer.

I'm very involved in the family's daily life. I drive the kids to school. I do father-son overnights. I do all the cooking when I'm home.

I need 2,000 pounds of rice, 1,000 pounds of beans, I need cooking oil, I need money for fuel -- I need everything.

If you don't have a rack, the meat will still cook beautifully, but it will end up cooking and steaming in its own juices, which would be steaming.

If you approach cooking as a trade school, then you may not have as many interesting things to think about or do later on in life.

If you're cooking dinner and wondering what ingredients to put in your meal, if you had a dial-up connection you would probably go to your cookbook,

I remember being a young boy in Spain and watching my parents cook. We didn't go to a lot of restaurants because we didn't always have the money, so cooking at home was just what we did.

I have the best job. I love cooking for people.

I promise that once you try living with an older fuel-efficient car, cooking instead of dining out five days a week, and paying with cash, you'll realize that you're just as happy as you were in your free-spending old life. In fact, you'll be happier. Less money anxiety and more time spent at home with your family will make the 'sacrifices' seem inconsequential.

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.

One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.

He stopped eating mother's cooking and he'd eat vegetables only after he'd wash it with dish washing liquid. He thought people were controlling him through the food. I believe Fred was, in layman's terms, crazy at that time.

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

Cooking can be like foreplay.

Chase and I actually talked about going to cooking school for years.

Home cooking is what I do best. And although I enjoy making desserts, refrigerated and do-ahead recipes are my favorite.

Gelatins are one of most unbelievable areas in cooking today.

Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking.

I don't cook. I respect food too much.

It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.

The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

I don't do my mother's cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn't. Even if she is a better cook.

You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.

Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit.... What are the limits?

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

If you think well, you cook well.

I miss my wife's cooking, as often as I can

Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said. "I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

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

I'm very open about the fact that I'm a big fan of day drinking. I also love cooking. I cook all day, and I have to have something in my hand while I'm doing that.

If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don't deal with climate change.

When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different.

When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

My dad was in the Navy, so we moved around a lot. That led to me seeing myriad cultures and cuisines. I have been excited about eating and cooking for as long as I can remember.

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

I am not accusing them of cooking the books, ... I am accusing them of hyping--it's different.

How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.

I cook what I like. Things just pop into my head. When you've been cooking so long, you know what works. When I wrote the menu, I thought about what people like.

I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.

He broke out of his weather role to do things along the lines of unique special segments that had a nice humorous twist to them . . . from gadgets to cooking segments.

Great music is an important part of living, especially during the holidays, ... Family activities such as gift wrapping, baking, cooking and entertaining are enlivened with beautiful songs, traditional carols, fantastic vocalists and famous musical renditions. Each selection in the compilation was carefully chosen from my many favorites for the holidays.

The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.

Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!

Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.

May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.

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

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.

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.

It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps me execute the progressive cooking we do at Alinea.

I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

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

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you?

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.

Never apologize for your cooking.

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

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.