My Cooking Skills Quotes

#1. One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California ... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

Diane Mott Davidson

#2. A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.

George Ellwanger

#3. My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,' Augustus said. 'And getting drunk on the porch.

Larry McMurtry

#4. I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

Ben Affleck

#5. I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills ... all apart from cooking.

Heston Blumenthal

#6. Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body?

William Katt

#7. You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

Bill Buford

#8. Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.

Jami Attenberg

#9. Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.

Gordon Ramsay

#10. Another one of my mystery skills I can't seem to remember. I really hope cooking is on that list, because I'd like to be able to make cupcakes without turning them into cement.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#11. Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

Nathan Myhrvold

#12. When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship.

Joel Robuchon

#13. The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

Gordon Ramsay

#14. Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.

Homaro Cantu

#15. Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

Eric Ripert

#16. Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts.

Anthony Bourdain