Top 100 Quotes About Cooking
#1. I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#2. Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.
Fannie Farmer
#3. I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like making the bed.
Hugh Jackman
#4. I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower,
Never had a girlfriend the color of cooking flour.
J-Ro
#5. Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep your style of cooking, but get rid of alcohol. You can keep your cultural dresses, but keep your modesty on the highest level.
Nouman Ali Khan
#6. In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.
Mario Batali
#7. You probably would not choose to dine at a restaurant whose chef always ate elsewhere. I do eat my own cooking, and I don't "dine out" when it comes to investing.
Seth Klarman
#8. Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.
Nancy Gibbs
#9. I remember being a young boy in Spain and watching my parents cook. We didn't go to a lot of restaurants because we didn't always have the money, so cooking at home was just what we did.
Jose Andres
#10. Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking.
Paul Romer
#11. Make sure you test your brand story's recipe with whomever you're cooking it for.
Laura Busche
#12. Cooking. Reading. Is there anything you can't do?"
Belle grabbed his big paw and shoved it into the water as well. "Oh yes, I'm a veritable domestic demigoddess," she said archly. "You should see me turn invisible and walk on water.
Liz Braswell
#13. I really appreciate crafts. I like cooking. I love food and drink. I love owning that through Instagram. Although that can be challenging at times because it doesn't fit people's stereotypes of a technical founder.
Kevin Systrom
#14. Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.
Michael Pollan
#15. I did want to share with you one of the greatest lessons I've learned over the years cooking for my kids - there is enormous value in bringing children into the kitchen.
Michael Mina
#16. I've always been known for bold flavors and rustic cooking, but there is another side to me. As you evolve as a cook, you understand life and how serious it is. There comes a point where there's got to be a better balance.
Emeril Lagasse
#17. Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.
Gail Simmons
#18. The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#19. Fermentation is right up there with cooking as one of the most powerful methods to transform food.
John Durant
#20. All the men I know add that "hands that prepared it" line. They must know it's right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.
Vicki Covington
#21. I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.
Jose Andres
#22. Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.
Julia Child
#23. Cooking is so popular today because it's the perfect mix of food and fun.
Emeril Lagasse
#24. I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
Hannah Kearney
#25. Nick jabbed him in the arm with his fork. "What's up with you? Usually you don't shut up about my crap cooking."
"Maybe I don't want to hurt your feelings."
Chris snorted, finally looking up from the plate. "That'll be the day.
Brigid Kemmerer
#26. I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.
Coolio
#27. I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.
Julia Child
#28. When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.
Gordon Ramsay
#29. It would be many years before I began to understand that all of life is practice: writing, driving, hiking, brushing teeth, packing lunch boxes, making beds, cooking dinner, making love, walking dogs, even sleeping. We are always practicing. Only practicing.
Dani Shapiro
#30. To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.
Jeff Goodell
#31. 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
#32. My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
Iman
#33. My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#34. I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
Patrice Leconte
#36. Proud parents to two children
Grandparents to five more
Who visit the "Harper Bakery"
It's Gran's cooking they all adore
John Walter Bratton
#37. The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.
Dillon Lane
#38. Hair burns very quickly. If you have long hair, tie it back securely when you are cooking, building a fire in the fireplace, lighting your space heater, leaning toward a lit grill, or doing anything else involving flames.
Cheryl Mendelson
#39. Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
#40. The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.
Ferran Adria
#41. To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.
Manuel Vazquez Montalban
#42. I believe that forcing researchers to eat their own cooking whenever possible solves a serious problem in science.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#43. Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!
Guy Fieri
#44. When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.
Ciaran Hinds
#45. I know what death smells like. Death smells like gasoline, singed hair and fingernails.
It smells like cooking meat. My meat.
Rasmenia Massoud
#46. Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.
Julie Powell
#47. My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true.
Roz Chast
#48. I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.
Patsy Kensit
#49. The only real nourishment you boys ever get comes from my cooking." - Florence Zimmermann
Brad Strickland
#50. I'd love to learn to cook. I think the ladies like a guy who can cook. Also, there are lots of available ladies at cooking classes. Can you tell I'm single?
Will Estes
#51. You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel great about cooking a good dinner and making a dress for a granddaughter, creating a beautiful birthday party. It's all part of life.
Martha Stewart
#52. I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.
Bat For Lashes
#53. I know that some people feel that cooking is time consuming, but cooking is an activity that you can do for yourself and you'll be in good condition to do all the other things that you want to do in your life for a very long time.
William Katt
#54. You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospel until it does. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)
Joan Reardon
#55. I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what's in front of me - what's fresh, seasonal - tell me what I'm cooking.
Tyler Florence
#56. I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#57. Men are like microwave ovens; they heat up immediately, but things start to boil over after about three minutes. Women are like conventional ovens; they take twenty minutes to heat up, but can go on cooking for hours.
Mardy Grothe
#58. Baking was a science, precise, just mix it all together and let the oven do the work. But actually cooking, she couldn't cook a tasty meal if her life depended on it.
Allie Burke
#59. Sentinel meeting tonight," Ria told her. "At Lucas's place."
"Time?"
...
"Seven. Sascha's doing dinner."
"God save us all." Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back.
Nalini Singh
#60. Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.
Eric Ripert
#61. My guilty pleasure is competitive cooking reality shows. I don't like cooking shows when it's just about cooking. It has to be competitive - they're fighting and yelling at each other. I am obsessed with those shows, and I have no idea why.
Justice Smith
#62. You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.
Ruth Reichl
#63. I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - it's authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.
Sullivan Stapleton
#64. What it requires is that first of all you identify the hazards: Where in your production chain can contamination occur? This could be a simple matter of cooking a product to kill bacteria and making sure that the product is actually brought to that temperature.
Marion Nestle
#65. Am going to cook shepherd's pie for them all - British home cooking.
Helen Fielding
#66. In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.
Fernand Point
#67. 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
#68. There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!
Margot Robbie
#69. Having been in a relationship since I was 18, I'm very domestic, but I don't enjoy cooking for myself. I don't mind cooking for other people. But I don't like cleaning or washing dishes, although I don't mind doing laundry.
Megan Fox
#70. It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.
Eva Longoria
#71. Cooking up ideas and crafting good plot into a unique, natural, stirring taste is like cooking patiently in a charcoal stove.
Angelica Hopes
#72. Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#73. I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.
Gordon Ramsay
#74. I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.
Nigella Lawson
#75. 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
#76. There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie - she is gone on now - I feel her right with me.
Kimberly Schlapman
#77. When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.
Trisha Yearwood
#78. Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.
Tom Robbins
#79. Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.
Paulo Coelho
#80. Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts.
Anthony Bourdain
#81. Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.
China Mieville
#82. If you salt a chicken the day before cooking, it starts to break down the cell structure of the meat and allows it to take on more flavor and actually helps it to stay more moist. Same goes for a steak, a pork chop. A lot of people brine; we preseason.
Michael Symon
#83. I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
Ted Allen
#84. Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man ...
Sylvia Plath
#85. Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
Barbara Kingsolver
#86. My philosophy is food and cooking should be fun but, never a chore!
Adam Pittaway-Hay
#87. See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.
Roy Yamaguchi
#88. Cooking gives you the ability to grow as a person and to give yourself confidence. You can invite people around, you can sit down and eat together and it makes you feel about ten feet tall because you've done it with your own hands.
William Katt
#89. When I'm in the country with all of the kids around and cooking, that's when I'm most relaxed. When I'm in the country I like to cook.
Kate Moss
#90. I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.
Michael Mina
#91. Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#92. Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki.
Karen Harper
#93. I love cooking but I still always go and sneak a little bit of sides from Boston Market, and it's so good. They're so good.
Kate Walsh
#94. Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding.
Surya Das
#95. My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.
Jamie Oliver
#96. You know what they say about Southern cooking - butter's the main course - everything else is just a side dish. Why
Amy Patrick
#97. Clams served on Quinnipeague were dug from the from the flats hours before cooking, and the batter, which was exquisitely light, held bits of parsley and thyme. Other fried clams couldn't compare.
Barbara Delinsky
#98. Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.
Laurie Colwin
#99. Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are
Curnonsky
#100. Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
Taylor Hicks
