Quotes About Recipes

#1. We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then.

Ferran Adria

#2. People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes ... we never stopped inventing.

Lynn Johnston

#3. There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.

Daniel Boulud

#4. An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

Elizabeth David

#5. The sublime signals the limits of rationality - the 'sleep' of reason - and was best communicated by obscurity. So in the same spirit as the recipes 'to make a romance', 'seven types of obscurity' could be proposed for a Gothic novel:

Nick Groom

#6. Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#7. I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.

Michelle Obama

#8. Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

Jose Garces

#9. I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

Joanna Lumley

#10. Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

Nina Dobrev

#11. I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#12. One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

Thomas Keller

#13. A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans ... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

Georges Duhamel

#14. British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.

Nigel Slater

#15. You can't learn to play soccer by reading the rulebook, you can't learn to play the piano by studying sheets of music, and you can't learn to cook by reading recipes.

Tina Seelig

#16. The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return to their war work now extolled elaborate recipes which women could attempt if they stayed home and vacated jobs for men.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#17. In case the term is unfamiliar, the best description ever for 'cozies' is 'murder mysteries where no one cares who got killed because they're all distracted by cooking new recipes or following intricate handicraft instructions.'"--The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap

Wendy Welch

#18. At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes.

Martina Mcbride

#19. I create recipes that are not just "good for gluten-free" but just plain GOOD, period!

Carol Kicinski

#20. You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

Sally Schneider

#21. Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.

Steve Case

#22. I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Elizabeth David

#23. Avocados have a creamy texture, making them a healthier replacement for ingredients like butter and mayo in recipes, though they do contain a surprisingly large amount of fat - a whopping 30 grams per medium-sized avocado.

Marcus Samuelsson

#24. I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.

Amy Sedaris

#25. My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.

Jamie Oliver

#26. My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.

Bethenny Frankel

#27. Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.

Jerry Seinfeld

#28. Uncertainty is one of government recipes.

Toba Beta

#29. I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said.
"Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!"
"It's from indigestion.

Neal Shusterman

#30. To me, nothing tastes more like summer than peach pie. I began collecting pie recipes from friends and family while I was still working on my first draft. As the recipes poured in, it was fun to try to match the pies to the characters in the book.

Sarah Weeks

#31. As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Demi Lovato

#32. As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas.

Jose Andres

#33. Read a lot of books and try a lot of recipes," Jia said. "When you learn enough about the world, even a blade of grass can be a weapon.

Ken Liu

#34. There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

Zygmunt Bauman

#35. Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!

Dylan Jones

#36. I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

Paul Prudhomme

#37. Pasta isn't just for Italian food anymore. Now there are tasty pasta recipes found in Asian cuisine, and it's emerging as a newfound love for vegans.

Marcus Samuelsson

#38. A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Arthur Helps

#39. Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in the morning. They want things like toast. I say, 'I don't have these recipes.'

Elayne Boosler

#40. Healthy Cookbooks For Families Clean Eating and Slow Cooker Recipes Elicia

Elicia Zahler

#41. I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.

Taissa Farmiga

#42. Tenacious D loves Auntie Em's. Her delicious nutrients are always energizing and indie-fresh. Where does she find those unbelievable recipes? Somewhere over the rainbow?

Jack Black

#43. I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.

Cara Buono

#44. I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is that someone else made them for me.

Jen Kirkman

#45. Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Paul Valery

#46. Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

Julia Child

#47. Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

Bill Vaughan

#48. We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.

Ryan Lilly

#49. In 1998, while serving two consecutive life sentences, Puente began corresponding with a writer named Shane Bugbee and sending him recipes which were subsequently published in a book called Cooking with a Serial Killer.
Call me crazy, but I wouldn't touch that food with a ten-foot pole.

Jodi Picoult

#50. Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

Guy Fieri

#51. Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying.

Gloria Steinem

#52. I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#53. If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

Henry David Thoreau

#54. I believe cooking can be fun, healthy, easy and tasty! I hope you find some recipes in here that are some nice healthy alternatives and become part of your weekly flow.

Angelika Angie Hofmann

#55. Recipes are how we learn all the rules, and cooking is knowing how to break them to suit our tastes or preferences.

Shauna Niequist

#56. These simple to prepare recipes should inspire anyone who wants to honor their body-God's Temple-and feed their family from a biblical perspective.

Jordan Rubin

#57. I'm really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now - but you'll never catch me being boring.

Harry Shum Jr.

#58. This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity
an out-and-out favorite of mine.

Diana Kennedy

#59. When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional.

Paula Wolfert

#60. 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

#61. When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

Pat Conroy

#62. A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

Grant Achatz

#63. 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

#64. I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

Bee Wilson

#65. ~There are no recipes, only ingredients~

Mireille Guiliano

#66. I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!

Blake Lively

#67. Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate.

Bill Buford

#68. So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.

Aarti Sequeira

#69. I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

Aarti Sequeira

#70. That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.

Alton Brown

#71. 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

#72. Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

Tom Colicchio

#73. Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?

Brandon T. Jackson

#74. Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

Ingrid Newkirk

#75. I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.

Christine Teigen

#76. Preparing Zomick's recipes makes me focus. On weighing the sugar, sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.

Zomick's Bakery

#77. If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

Ina Garten

#78. I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#79. 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

#80. had the time to test every single one of the great family recipes you send. Chapter

Joanne Fluke

#81. The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

Paulo Coelho

#82. 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

#83. You don't need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them.

Timothy Ferriss

#84. Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking.

Paul Romer

#85. Gran follows recipes by looking at picture - to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really.

Simon Cheshire

#86. Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

Matt Ridley

#87. Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: How beautiful that is!

Paul Gauguin

#88. I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

Thomas Keller

#89. 30 Fast, Easy and Delicious Gluten-Free Breakfast Recipes For The Whole Family

Heather J. Mitchell

#90. I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.

Ina Garten

#91. Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.

Matthias Platzeck

#92. I had this idea that I would write a companion cookbook to 'Barbara the Slut.' The recipes would be like, 'Put the Lucky Charms in the bowl.'

Lauren Holmes

#93. One of the things I've found now, not just for television, but in the restaurant, is that you have many anxious chefs, who know how to cook twenty recipes really well, but they don't have a good foundation for other things.

Wolfgang Puck

#94. You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

Julia Child

#95. I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.

Melissa D'Arabian

#96. When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes.

Tom Douglas

#97. America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?

Michael Pollan

#98. Food is entertainment now. People tune into 'Top Chef,' and they're not trying to replicate the recipes. Anthony Bourdain is entertainment. Instagramming your dishes is entertainment.

David Sax

#99. Unfortunately, in many cases, the rule book goes way too far - it tries to tell people how to be instead of explaining what we're trying to do.. We need recipes, not rules.

Howard Behar

#100. The only time I really go on the Internet is for recipes.

Blake Lively