Top 70 Cooked Food Quotes
#1. I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
#2. The windows in the soup kitchen are never opened, and for that reason the aroma of old meals lingers in corners and rises from the table tops - which are never washed - when the steam from the freshly cooked food brings them back to life.
Joseph Roth
#3. I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.
Estelle
#4. No home-cooked food, no matter how delicious, can match the power of bringing people together in misty-eyed recollection of industrially produced food.
Bee Wilson
#5. When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant.
Ashley Jones
#6. I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.
Andrea Hirata
#8. I went into raw vegan for a while, but I prefer cooked food, the way it smells, the way it feels going through your system.
John Salley
#9. People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.
Danny Meyer
#10. I am a foodie, but I prefer to be at home and enjoy home-cooked food.
Ronit Roy
#11. In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
Laurie Graham
#12. Restrepo. It's a miraculous kind of antiparadise up here: heat and dust and tarantulas and flies and no women and no running water and no cooked food and nothing to do but kill and wait.
Anonymous
#13. All mankind lives in a state of terrible ignorance. In the opinion of food addicts, the consumption of cooked food is something quite natural, while nourishment by the laws of nature is an experiment, and a dangerous experiment at that.
Arshavir Ter Hovannessian
#14. Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#15. I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.
Elizabeth Kostova
#16. He doesn't seem to have been one of those food faddists who'll eat any mortal thing so long as it isn't cooked. My sister's husband's like that. Raw carrots, raw peas, raw turnips. But
Agatha Christie
#17. All of us together were of a generation born of old country people who spoke English with an accent and prayed in another language, who drank red wine and cooked their food in the old country way, and peeled apples and pears after dinner.
Robert Laxalt
#18. I've swallowed fish-eyes whole
like an endoscope.
I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin.
Felt like a shark eating another shark,
inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.
Yann Rousselot
#19. My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg, but as time went on and new things came into the culture, she embraced all of that. I grew up with mealtimes and sitting around the table with proper cooking and eating.
Lesley Manville
#20. When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn't think I could follow her.
Coolio
#21. of those in food to have optimal health. Most enzymes are destroyed in foods that are processed, refined, or cooked at temperatures above 118 degrees. Raw or lightly steamed foods, on the other hand, are rich in enzymes.
Ann Boroch
#22. We [women] have earned the right to forget about stupefying household busywork. But kitchens where food is cooked and eaten - those were really a good idea. We threw that baby out with the bathwater.
Barbara Kingsolver
#23. Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.
Steve Albini
#24. The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
Rumi
#25. Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.
Jeff Smith
#26. I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.
Joel Robuchon
#27. One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners.
Louis Tomlinson
#28. In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.
Paul Prudhomme
#29. My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.
Cat Cora
#30. It won't be the same. Just because we have the choice of having anything we want without having to lift a finger, we don't have to take the shortcut. As you've seen, we enjoy doing most of the things by ourselves. Food cooked or a house built by hand is more precious.
Liz Grace Davis
#31. My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic.
Tyler Florence
#32. Don't go and cook Indian food if you never cooked Indian food, you know?
Wolfgang Puck
#33. Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
Norman Douglas
#34. This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.
M.F.K. Fisher
#35. Nowadays, food needs to be healthy, local, sustainable and not filled with too much fat, salt or sugar. It should be slow-cooked and seasonal. That's my vision.
Alain Ducasse
#36. Maybe your mind won't remember what I cooked last week, but your body will.
Erica Bauermeister
#37. People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.
Alice Waters
#38. I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
Ferran Adria
#39. Certain foods, such as meat, appear to harbour toxic bacteria - known as endotoxins - that can trigger inflammation in your arteries, even when food is fully cooked.
Michael Greger
#40. there are now millions of people who spend more time watching food being cooked on television than they spend actually cooking it themselves.
Michael Pollan
#42. I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.
Julia Child
#43. Airline food is cooked in an oven and then kept warm. Space station food is often cooked in an oven and then thermo-stabilised, irradiated or dehydrated and then stored for a year or two before you even get to it.
Chris Hadfield
#44. We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.
Jesse Jackson
#45. It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.
Catharine Beecher
#46. When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#47. Their verdict was that you could live very well on healthy food provided you had a big cooked lunch beforehand.
Terry Pratchett
#48. When my mother was dying, I cooked for her. One of the things I realised was that the smell and look of the food was key. I concentrated on how it looked on the plate. Even if the amount was small, it gave her a nourishment of a different kind.
Simon McBurney
#49. I am grown up. That's why I cooked all this food!
Lena Dunham
#50. Cooked carrots taste like baby food mixed with dirt.
Kim Holden
#51. I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.
Archie Panjabi
#52. I got to help make dinner. You can't imagine the pleasure of wiping mushrooms and grating cheese when you haven't had a chance to do it for a long time. Then eating food you have cooked, or help cook, always tastes so much better. Auntie
Jo Walton
#53. The food in the hostel mess is worst of a kind. The grief in my words reach easily to those who have "been there and done that" Chapatti in the meal is either so uncooked or overly cooked and you can only expect dal in the ocean of water when you are ready to swim.
Parul Wadhwa
#54. I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.
Paul Engle
#56. There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.
Karen Blixen
#57. There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
Giada De Laurentiis
#58. I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.
Elle Fanning
#59. It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.
Alexis Soyer
#60. You can buy turmeric from any supermarket - or get it raw from Asian shops and grate a quarter of an inch of the root into your food. There's evidence to suggest raw turmeric may have greater anti-inflammatory effects, while cooked turmeric offers better DNA protection.
Michael Greger
#61. A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen ...
M.F.K. Fisher
#62. I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.
Fergus Henderson
#63. I only get fat when I eat food cooked by other chefs. At home, my wife does all the cooking. She makes simple things like soups and salads. We both like steamed tofu.
Alain Ducasse
#64. It was in France that I first learned about food. And that even the
selection of a perfect pear, a ripe piece of Brie, the freshest butter,
the highest quality cream were as important as how the dish you
were going to be served was actually cooked.
Robert Carrier
#65. My mom cooked the same food every day - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was enchiladas, it was - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was burritos, it was still - tortillas, beans and meat.
Felipe Esparza
#66. I never cooked before I became vegan. Preparing a meal as opposed to ordering in all the time, you start thinking about where your food comes from and how it gets to your table. You notice that chain.
Robin Quivers
#67. I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea.
Nigel Slater
#68. I'm from South Georgia, so my mom, she always cooked some dang good food when I was growing up.
Phillip Phillips
#69. My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
Rachael Ray
#70. There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.
Rosita Forbes
