Mary Berry Quotes

Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.

Mary Berry

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• I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• This shared love of cooking and celebration has allowed me to create a strong bond with my family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Love
  • Strong

• I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• 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
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Cooking

• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • Like
  • Should
  • Cooking

• Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies and other businesses a method of hedging against adverse price changes. Instead, they've become just another Wall Street plaything.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Wall
  • Changes
  • Street

• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Done
  • Winning

• I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Like
  • Cooking
  • Pay

• Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Different
  • Food
  • Cooking

• After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Cooking

• My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That's just not my style... I cook from the soul.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Soul
  • Style
  • Challenge

• There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Party
  • Cooking
  • Painless

• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Past
  • Best

• Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Children
  • Driving

• As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Music
  • Woman

• The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

  

  Laurie Colwin
  • Giving
  • Food
  • Safety

• I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Live
  • Living
  • Hanging

• If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Remember
  • Movie

• I don't know if I'd do well in a structured, corporate environment. I'm very open. I share everything. I don't care. I don't have anything to hide. I'm very transparent that way.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Know
  • Environment
  • Care

• That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

  

  Kent McCord
  • Time
  • Learning

• Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Cooking