Home Cooking Quotations

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

No one who cooks cooks alone.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

All sorrows are less with bread.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.