Cooks Quotes

#1. Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

W. H. Auden

#2. Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

Alton Brown

#3. My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid.

Christa Miller

#4. Late season fruits.
The blood orange has its admirer, who suck it smugly. Cooks stalk it; they'd like to put it in some tartare sauce. However, some, like me, turn their noses up. In silence they mould bits of bread into balls, delighting in their work, then chuck them in God's face.

Claude Cahun

#5. If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.

Arthur Cecil Pigou

#6. Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?

Dick Schaap

#8. Everybody eats, everybody learns to cook

Jim Bob Duggar

#9. I did a show a long, long time ago called 'Cooking Mexican'. It was a studio show as opposed to on-location like the one I do now. Before my first show, I was a cooking instructor, and I did a whole lot of classes for home cooks about Mexican food.

Rick Bayless

#10. Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.

David Chang

#11. No one asks the cow or the chicken where it gets its protein. I eat about 4,000 or 5,000 calories a day, and I cook for myself. I also have a line of cooks that work with me - some raw, some vegan.

John Salley

#12. All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.

Patti LaBelle

#13. Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Mignon McLaughlin

#14. I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

Melvin Van Peebles

#15. I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better ... but you're lazier.

Juan Mari Arzak

#16. Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#17. The more you cook, the better you'll look.

Chris Mohr

#18. It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.

Bill Watterson

#19. I bask in the affection I get on the streets. I recently went into the kitchen of a restaurant to meet the cooks. They were people I didn't know, but what a joy it was meet them! Such experiences wouldn't happen if I were doing only one kind of cinema.

Boman Irani

#20. There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets.

Frederick Douglass

#21. Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

Andre Simon

#22. They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants' rooms because they didn't believe in laundry maids or cooks.
Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having clean clothes, clean floors, and enchiladas tapatias.

Barbara Kingsolver

#23. Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.

Eric Ripert

#24. I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.

Jose Andres

#25. HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

Bertrand Russell

#26. I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

Dorothy West

#27. At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks.

Sascha Radetsky

#28. Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories. But when I'm at home, I eat what my wife cooks for me. She works hard to avoid making foods that are high in calories and cholesterol, so most of the time, she makes vegetarian dishes.

Masaharu Morimoto

#29. The planet will continue to cook.

Paul Krugman

#30. No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

Laurie Colwin

#31. I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

Illeana Douglas

#32. I cook anything but chitlins.

Trick Daddy

#33. There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

Sally Schneider

#34. I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

Sally Schneider

#35. Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

Peg Bracken

#36. There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.

David Byrne

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

Eva Mendes

#38. I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.

Lesley Nicol

#39. The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#40. I would probably never have learned to cook.

Elizabeth David

#41. Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.

Alice Waters

#42. I would cook it, and look at the pictures and masturbate.

Jeffrey Dahmer

#43. Under no circumstances trust a lean cook.

Iain Hewitson

#44. Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

Tom Colicchio

#45. I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

Nigella Lawson

#46. My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

Giada De Laurentiis

#47. The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.

Malin Akerman

#48. Dashi remains unfamiliar to most French and American cooks, who tend to reach for a bouillon cube to do many of the same things. But dashi is worth preparing and using the way the Japanese do: for poaching fish, as a soup base, and in simmered dishes.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#49. I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

Kajol

#50. My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn."
"She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action."
-Ranger and Stephanie

Janet Evanovich

#51. It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.

Wylie Dufresne

#52. Line cooks are the heroes.

Anthony Bourdain

#53. Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.

Gina Barreca

#54. Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#55. In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.

Marcus Samuelsson

#56. I love to cook; that's my passion.

Emeril Lagasse

#57. The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used.

Swami Vivekananda

#58. Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

Patrick Rothfuss

#59. New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

Steve Albini

#60. I'm a huge seafood lover; I could cook it everyday.

Trina

#61. After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going against Bobby Flay takes the challenge to another level, but I'm ready to whip these contestants into shape and the winner is sure to be from Team Burrell.

Anne Burrell

#62. You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

Chuck Close

#63. All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

Amanda Eliasch

#64. Ten cooks' shops! ... and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ... had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.

Laurence Sterne

#65. For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.

Daniel Defoe

#66. Jared's lips quirked up. "Are you sure Benji won't greet me in the morning with a shotgun?"
"Not if you make him french toast. He'll totally sell me out for someone who cooks.

Amy Lane

#67. I always cook meats on low and things like eggs or cakes on high, because things with eggs in them you want to cook through and through; and you don't want to put food in there that cooks so slowly that bacteria develops.

Michele Scicolone

#68. When I want to really eat great, I eat at home when my wife cooks.

Sirio Maccioni

#69. You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base.

Anthony Bourdain

#70. Every cook must learn to rule the State.

Vladimir Lenin

#71. I married an awesome cook, thats cool!

Kevin Jonas

#72. Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.

Brett Hoebel

#73. [On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat.

Gwen Stefani

#74. People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

Bill Buford

#75. You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

Agnes Varda

#76. I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.

Jamie Cullum

#77. I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.

Rachael Ray

#78. They were looking for housekeepers and cooks, and I was dying to get out of Australia and see the rest of the world. It's a Sagittarius thing, you know. We just move on and on, like tumbleweeds.

Roxanne St. Claire

#79. Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.

Steve Albini

#80. The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#81. God provides the food, men provide the cooks.

Idries Shah

#82. Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

Alton Brown

#83. Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

Denis Diderot

#84. I think the basic thing that home cooks can learn how to do is just season properly ... If the home cook realized how little salt they use compared to what's needed, it would make their food taste better.

David Chang

#85. So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

Auguste Escoffier

#86. I own the restaurant. There are a lot of cooks, waiters and waitresses in this restaurant. They worry about their problems. I worry about all the problems.

Mack Brown

#87. Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Henry Beard

#88. I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.

Joanne Harris

#89. In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York.

David Chang

#90. Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#91. I am very organic; I eat a lot of seeds. At home in the morning, I eat muesli with a banana. At noon, I mix a little bit of all the seeds I can find. I love quinoa. It's great - it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

Clotilde Hesme

#92. Too many cooks might wreck the whole dish.

Stieg Larsson

#93. I'm with an old family was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

Malcolm X

#94. A tale of too many cooks in the defence.

Ian Brown

#95. How many'd we do? is the question frequently asked at the end of the shift, when the cooks collapse onto flour sacks and milk crates and piles of dirty linen, smoking their cigarettes, drinking their shift cocktails,

Anthony Bourdain

#96. Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Robert A. Burton

#97. I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

Tracy Morgan

#98. Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#99. My boyfriend is a chef, so he cooks for me, but I cook too. The only time I felt pressure was when he asked how I wanted vegetables chopped, so I described in sizes whereas he knows the right words. I felt a bit daft then.

Sharleen Spiteri

#100. I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.

Marcus Samuelsson