Self Made Cooking Quotes

#1. A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

Marcel Boulestin

#2. Mastering one recipe is better than mastering too many. Learn something and own it, and you'll feel so much better about it. You'll have more confidence if you've made it five times, and that confidence adds so much fun to cooking.

Tom Douglas

#3. She hadn't known that the ability to make pancakes from scratch made a man brutally hot. Now she did.

Suenammi Richards

#4. A dinner made by a great cook is a vision of the world to come.

Patricia Storace

#5. My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.

Willie Nelson

#6. Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#7. The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.'

Jacques Pepin

#8. Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.

David Liederman

#9. Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal.

Emeril Lagasse

#10. Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.

Sarah Weeks

#11. Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#12. No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

Willa Cather

#13. I've always been one of those people who romanticized cooking, but the few attempts I'd made in my life resulted in friends' contorted faces as they desperately tried to say something nice about the "dish" they were eating.

Drew Barrymore

#14. Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

Patrick Duffy

#15. When I got home I peered down at the lobster to see how he was doing. The inner plastic bag was sucked tight around him and clouded up. It looked like something out of an eighties made-for-TV movie, with some washed-up actress taking too many pills and trying to off herself with a Macy's bag.

Julie Powell