Cooks Quotes

#1. I'd burn the salad, suh. Us of the fatal beauty type are pretty awful cooks if y' ask me. - Dorothea Duckfontein Dillworthy Dotti

Brian Jacques

#2. Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.

Michael Pollan

#3. A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

Alice Miller

#4. A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

Isabel Allende

#5. I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

Tori Amos

#6. Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

Rachel Corrie

#7. As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

Mario Batali

#8. I'm wishing that I had a regular family where the mom cooks lasagna and throws bagged salad into a big dented wooden bowl.

Lauren Layne

#9. The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

Pearl Bailey

#10. In my household, everything happens in the kitchen. My parents have this pretty big home, and it doesn't matter how big it is, we will all squeeze ourselves in the kitchen and just chat while my mom or dad cooks.

Selenis Leyva

#11. I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

Bobby Flay

#12. All the women in my family were superb cooks.

Randy Wayne White

#13. Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Caroline Sunshine

#14. In my experience, 'SNL' has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas 'MadTV' - even in my 13 episodes there - had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively.

Taran Killam

#15. Now came details of Goldby's adventures with the Cooks and their band. Chicken, Dynamite Dick, The Verdigris Kid. I wish these fellows read something other than Ned Buntline's Own. Why haven't I heard of this Goldsby before this?

Loren D. Estleman

#16. When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

H.L. Mencken

#17. Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor.

Jose Garces

#18. I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.

Nicole Scherzinger

#19. Forgiveness is the oil that love cooks in.

Ron Moore

#20. Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers ...

M.F.K. Fisher

#21. Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

Charlemagne

#22. A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

Mel Brooks

#23. If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

Martin Scorsese

#24. Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry. The act of feeding adult males seems to have strange personality effects.

James Tiptree Jr.

#25. She catches the fish, she cleans the fish, she cooks the fish, I just drive the boat.

Tssully Todd

#26. I have someone that cooks for me ... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel ... so I want to have a couple of options ... I like to have a couple of options.

Ashton Kutcher

#27. It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.

Elizabeth David

#28. My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though.

Big Boi

#29. Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

Edmund Burke

#30. As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks and scrubs for her children, but who also acts as her daughter's literary agent.

Richard Corliss

#31. It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

Eliza Acton

#32. Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.

Jose Andres

#33. I have a cousin Ernie who buys stuff. He's got a big snowblower that's actually the biggest snowblower you can buy, with a remote control, so he doesn't even have to go outside. He's got the microwave and a satellite dish, it's all in one. He cooks and watches at the same time.

Louie Anderson

#34. I'll go further and say she was one of the best cooks in the world! The compimentary expression, "This food will make you slap yo' Aint Emma" was apt in her case.

Mars Hill

#35. My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

Dana Spiotta

#36. Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders, and so on and so forth.

Craig Brown

#37. I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.

Emeril Lagasse

#38. History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.

Edward Hallett Carr

#39. I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.

Heidi Julavits

#40. What do men want? Men want a mattress that cooks.

Judy Tenuta

#41. It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night.

Bryce Harper

#42. Even cooking at home, the difference between my wife cooking and me cooking is major. When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks like a disaster. When I cook it's completely clean and organized and it doesn't look like anyone has been cooking in there.

Tom Colicchio

#43. The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are happy and the cooks are happy, then we have a great experience.

Mario Batali

#44. Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang

#45. I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.

Barbara Pym

#46. She met the Lusitanian cooks, a husband and wife team whose passionate screams in
Portuguese during their fights and lovemaking were legendary among the sailors. - pag. 191

Meljean Brook

#47. No one who cooks cooks alone.

Laurie Colwin

#48. In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful ... You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

Doris Lessing

#49. I ate, boy. Early this morning. Some awful fish soup. The cooks should be hanged for that. No one should face fish first thing in the morning.

Robin Hobb

#50. I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks ... and I cook in any language.

Raymond Burr

#51. I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Tom Colicchio

#52. There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.

Bryan Volpenhein

#53. If home cooks shopped in their own vegetable bin before going to the market, they would save money and help the environment, too, and all because they decided to rescue a vegetable before it turned bad.

Dana Cowin

#54. We wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#55. I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.

Olga Kurylenko

#56. Tyrion Lannister: Someone should tell the cooks that turnips isn't a meat.

George R R Martin

#57. Daddy Jack and Fanny don't care what I do as long as I stay out of the kitchen. She looms over the stove, madly coating everything she cooks with cayenne pepper and several shakes of Tabasco.

Frances Mayes

#58. Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

Paul McCartney

#59. In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

Rocco DiSpirito

#60. I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking - a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for steel-cut oats. I travel with a small rice cooker. I soak oats overnight, and when I get up, I just turn the rice cooker on, and it cooks the oats perfectly every time.

John Mackey

#61. My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#62. I'm not a meek lady who stays at home and cooks.

Diane Hendricks

#63. The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

Mario Batali

#64. Both my parents are chefs ... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

Ming-Na Wen

#65. In hell the cooks are English, the journalists are Russian and the policemen are Spanish.

David Serafin

#66. My wife is a terrific Southern cook. My favorite of all the great things she cooks is 'trash potatoes.' That's mashed potatoes with sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, and horseradish. It's a total gut bomb.

Mike Vogel

#67. Some people are good cooks and some people are good ... I don't see why you have to do all of that.

Frank Fairfield

#68. Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.

Nicholas Sparks

#69. In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

Eric Ripert

#70. I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

Marc Singer

#71. Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.

Aarti Sequeira

#72. The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.

Dean Koontz

#73. God made food; the devil the cooks.

James Joyce

#74. If you're dining with someone who wants the same cut, it's always better to get a 16-ounce steak and split it than to order two eight-ounce steaks. The longer something cooks, the more flavor it develops, so you'll get a better taste with a bigger piece of meat.

Tom Colicchio

#75. You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike.

David Chang

#76. I like cooking the biggest steaks. It cooks nice and evenly when it's that thick, and you're not eating the whole thing yourself, which is nice. You get to share that with a companion.

April Bloomfield

#77. A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

Steve Albini

#78. "And I stole some oxen jerky out of Bercelak's bag. He makes the best oxen jerky."
"Bercelak the Vengeful cooks?"
"Aye. And he's surprisingly good at it, too!

G.A. Aiken

#79. If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#80. When my girlfriend cooks dinner, I'm happy to do the dishes. Because I make her wash dishes when I take her to a restaurant.

Anthony Jeselnik

#81. The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

Saki

#82. Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

George Farquhar

#83. The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.

James Hamilton-Paterson

#84. What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, 'Taste!' and everyone would go running towards it, and then taste, and then brutally deconstruct the dish.

Ruth Reichl

#85. Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.

Tyler Florence

#86. Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

W. H. Auden

#87. There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

Fernand Point

#88. Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.

David Garrick

#89. Science is a powerful tool, but like any tool, it doesn't care whether it hurts you. Fire warms us, cooks our food, protects us from predators, but it will burn us if we let it. Fire is more than happy to eat us all alive. Science is fire writ large.

Mira Grant

#90. I'm the kind of person, who, when bored or unhappy, either drinks myself into oblivion or cooks very unhealthy things; Sally is the kind of person who, when bored or unhappy, goes jogging or cleans the bathroom with a toothbrush or matriculates at rabbinical school.

Julie Powell

#91. 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.

Robertson Davies

#92. Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of the new, modern chef is different.

David Chang

#93. In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

Doris Lessing

#94. My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

Miranda Cosgrove

#95. The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

Gertrude Atherton

#96. Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking in the rich smells as he snitched lemon cakes and blueberry tarts. His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was.

George R R Martin

#97. Clem Miniver: She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went.

Jan Struther

#98. Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

Paul Gauguin

#99. Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair, and props. You've got your finger in all these pies, and you're making sure that everything cooks at the right temperature.

Michael Fassbender

#100. I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

Emeril Lagasse