Quotes About Good Cooks

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

Alton Brown

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

Auguste Escoffier

#3. I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

James Whistler

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

Bobby Flay

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

Jan Struther

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Frank Fairfield

#9. 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

#10. When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

Carl Weathers

#11. Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

David Hare

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

Big Boi

#13. What on earth did I ask him to tea for! he said to himself, as he went to the pantry.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. 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

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

Emeril Lagasse

#16. Remember!
When you tell a woman that she cooks something very good; you will be fucked by eating it three times a day.

M.F. Moonzajer

#17. 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

#18. There isn't anyone who wants to see me married more than I do.

Sheri L. Dew

#19. I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.

Ice Cube

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

David Garrick

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

Saki

#22. "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

#23. 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

#24. A Good Recipe Is As Good As The Chef That Cooks It

Kirk Castle

#25. All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Charles Hodge

#26. Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.

Salman Rushdie

#27. When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.

Anthony Bourdain

#28. But my favorite remained the basic roast chicken. What a deceptively simple dish. I had come to believe that one can judge the quality of a cook by his or her roast chicken. Above all, it should taste like chicken: it should be so good that even a perfectly simple, buttery roast should be a delight.

Julia Child

#29. Erm.. dear, do I ride out for Apocalypses?' Mrs War took the lid off the saucepan and prodded viciously at something inside. 'No, dear,' she said firmly. 'You always come down with a cold.

Terry Pratchett

#30. Credit Cards are your Advance Salary and Not Additional Salary!

Uttam Kumar

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

Agnes Varda

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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