Masaharu Morimoto Quotes

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

Masaharu Morimoto

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• 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

• I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • More
  • Feet
  • Panic

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

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Love
  • Strong

• Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Friends

• 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

• Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Love
  • Job

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Light
  • Things
  • Color

• I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Great
  • Food
  • Cooking

• 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

• When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Cooking
  • Celebrity
  • Hollywood

• The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Know
  • Church
  • Discipline

• People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Great
  • Long

• I hate when I see someone who speaks English speaking to someone who speaks a different language, and they're screaming as if going louder is going to help the other person understand.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Different
  • Help
  • Hate

• Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

  

  Joe Biden
  • People
  • Country

• I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Great
  • Long
  • Desire

• In England, it's always raining, and I feel like I'm expert in that field.

  

  Matthew Williamson

• No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

  

  Masaharu Morimoto
  • Cooking