Quotes About Joy Of Cooking

#1. As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted

Paul Lynde

#2. Eternity is a ham and two people" (also given as "Eternity is two people and a ham") is an old quip from the days when a ham was huge - far more than two people could finish. Irma Rombauer mentions this line in her famous cookbook, The Joy of Cooking.

Dorothy Parker

#3. I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.

Maura Tierney

#4. When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

Quentin Tarantino

#5. If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

Will.i.am

#6. Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

Julia Roberts

#7. My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'

Julia Roberts

#8. Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.

Barry Hannah

#9. Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

Jeff Smith

#10. Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Craig Claiborne

#11. In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.

Toshiko Takaezu

#12. Nourishment is not just "nutrition." Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the table, the love and inspiration in the cooking, and the joy of the entire eating experience.

Marc David

#13. Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

Mark Lawrence

#14. He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#15. There's a layer of satisfaction that I get from cooking that is more than the work itself. I think when you're too competitive sometimes you can lose the joy of what you do.

Paul Rankin

#16. The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Hans Selye

#17. When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.

D'Andre Lampkin

#18. There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

Robert Muller

#19. Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape.

Vimala McClure

#20. Whether you are cooking, cleaning house, or planting flowers, try to concentrate on the textures, the smells, colors, tastes, sounds, all Zen moments of focused joy.

Jerry Lynch