Top 100 Good Cook Quotes
#2. And she's certainly a good cook." Miss Betts sighed. "The epitaph of the spinster.
Annie Barrows
#3. I'm a really good cook. I bake a lot. I cook dinner most nights. I cook everything from Italian food to Mexican food. But if I'm going to some place and it's a potluck, I'm always the one to bring dessert!
Amanda Schull
#4. A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.
Marcel Boulestin
#5. As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
Yves Rossy
#6. There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now.
Rick Wagoner
#7. To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.
Marcus Samuelsson
#8. He thinks I'm a good cook, and will eat anything I set before him. He is regular in his habits and not once through our married life have I been left at home heel-tapping waiting for my 'hubby' to come home. We
Susan Williams
#9. I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
Robert Mondavi
#10. If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
Dolly Parton
#11. I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure ... But I am not really a good cook.
Gaspard Ulliel
#12. I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.
Martha Stewart
#13. When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"
Mitch Hedberg
#14. I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.
Rita Rudner
#15. A good cook is always the first one into the kitchen every morning and the last one to go home at night.
Terry Pratchett
#16. I'm a good cook; one of my specialities is reindeer and potato pie.
Terry Jones
#17. 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
#18. When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.
Jacques Pepin
#19. I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.
Steve Albini
#20. Some salesmen think that selling is like eating - to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook - he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.
George Horace Lorimer
#21. The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.
Cat Cora
#22. They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.
Stefanie Powers
#23. Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman - not an artist. There's nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen - though not designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying.
Anthony Bourdain
#24. Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#25. To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.
Julia Child
#26. I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
Cameron Mackintosh
#28. I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.
Jaime Pressly
#30. A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
Voltaire
#31. I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
Jack Nicklaus
#32. I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can't do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.
Ann Romney
#33. Please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#34. Clem Miniver: She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went.
Jan Struther
#35. 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
#36. A good cook can produce a good dish from any old scrawnbag of a chook.
Simon Hopkinson
#37. I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
Vince Cable
#38. You're a good cook," he murmured against my ear. "I think I must keep you.
Raine Miller
#39. Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's food. It was amazing because it brings back a time almost in Technicolor. I see her house, I see her stove; I think about what it felt like when I was sick, and it felt like love.
Debi Mazar
#40. The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
Urbain Dubois
#41. The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
Saki
#42. You're such a good cook. You're going to make someone very fat and happy one day," he said, his mouth half full with a bite of apple.
"I'm going to make you fat and happy. You know that."
"Ah, to be fat!
Kiera Cass
#43. A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
Walter Savage Landor
#44. I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows.
Nora Ephron
#45. I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.
Heidi Klum
#46. Food first," Kellen said firmly, "because I'm a really good cook, and I want you to experience the full awesomeness. And then bed, nice and slow, for pretty much the same reason.
Kaje Harper
#47. My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.
Jason Wu
#48. You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.
Erin Morgenstern
#49. Your boyfriend's penis is not an awkward string of spaghetti that has to be scooped up and sucked down. The Emperor of China once asked Lao-tzu: How should I rule the kingdom? To which Lao-tzu replied: Rule the kingdom as you would cook a small fish. A really good blowjob is the same.
Chloe Thurlow
#51. There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.
Donna Brazile
#52. Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me.
Phillip Phillips
#53. I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.
Jon Favreau
#54. He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can't shine a sneaker.
Claire Cook
#55. I'm not sure if I can cook. I probably can. But I'm really good at cajoling anybody around me to cook for me.
Nina Garcia
#56. I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
Angelina Jolie
#57. I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.
Lucy Punch
#58. Old movies are black-and-white; they've got good guys and bad guys. The thing was, I didn't want to live in the past anymore. It was time for my life to go full color.
Eileen Cook
#59. When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
Dane Cook
#60. There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
Glen Cook
#61. 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
#62. Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.
Julia Child
#63. It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents ... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
Tamra Davis
#64. Women talk a good talk, but they still feel the need to wear heels, shave their legs, and bat their eyelashes for men. They cook, clean, raise children, and feel the need to look good in a bathing suit. Career women are not featured in the magazines lined along the grocery checkout.
Sheila Hageman
#65. No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.
James Cook
#66. I may have done some other things as good but I am sure none better. I haven't matured, progressed, grown, become deeper, wiser, or funnier. But then, I never thought I would. (Peter Cook about Beyond the Fringe)
Peter Cook
#67. I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
Action Bronson
#68. Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. "There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him," Cook said. "That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.
Walter Isaacson
#69. Ah yes, you like to cook, don't you?
well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an eye for presentation. it's not a modern art. good cooking has hardly evolved since the nineteenth century.
Haruki Murakami
#70. I'd love to say I'm an accomplished cook, but I don't have any signature dishes. I'm good at breakfast
I make great eggs. My father gave me a little recipe. It's all in the seasoning. But it's a Greek secret. I won't give it away!
Jennifer Aniston
#71. A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
Wolfgang Puck
#72. What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.
Bee Wilson
#73. I mean, I love to try and cook. I'm pretty good, but I'm not saying I'm great.
Nina Dobrev
#74. I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
Anna Chancellor
#75. You can't have a back door that's only for the good guys.
Tim Cook
#77. Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.
James Cook
#78. 'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
A. J. Cook
#79. Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
Benjamin Millepied
#80. I'm not afraid," I said, reminding myself and also putting the house on notice just in case.
"Well, that's a good thing," a voice said.
I screamed and whirled around.
Eileen Cook
#81. I liked the way he handled himself in the kitchen. I like men who cook. Men who cook are generally good lovers.
Janice Dickinson
#82. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood All partial Evil, universal Good. - ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man
Thomas H. Cook
#83. The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.
Peter Cook
#85. If you're not really into something, you don't put the time in, so you don't get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone's gifts.
Claire Cook
#86. No person, whether she is a scientist or a cook, can find success if she doesn't first believe that she holds power in her hands - not to use over people, but to use for the good of another.
Linda Francis Lee
#87. Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.
Julia Child
#88. I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.
Eric Allman
#89. I'm very good at ordering off the menu and eating food that other people cook for me. My husband's a fantastic cook. I always come with a good appetite!
Kelly Rutherford
#90. A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.
Glen Cook
#91. A whore can always turn herself into a good little cook over time.
Michel Houellebecq
#92. To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.
Neel Mukherjee
#93. Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.
Marcella Hazan
#94. You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
Agnes Varda
#95. I love to feed people, and I like to cook food they want to eat and food that will be good for them. I try to cook them things that are lower in fat and see if they will eat them.
Ruth Glick
#96. I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#97. I'm obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash.
Frida Gustavsson
#98. man is not a man, until he stands for somthing good
Malcolm Cook
#99. You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
Mario Batali
#100. Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
Zoe Lister-Jones
