Anna Getty Quotes

I got rid of all of my non-stick pots and pans, anything that had a kind of toxic surface in terms of cooking.

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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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • Like
  • Should
  • 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

• 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

• Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Art
  • Control
  • Cooking

• 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

• I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • She
  • Mother
  • Sister

• 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

• For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Work
  • College
  • Language

• 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

• I love cooking shows! I'm not a bad cook myself, but I must say that I admire the creativity of those young chefs. It makes me jealous... and hungry.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Bad
  • Creativity
  • Cooking

• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Worth
  • Paper
  • Contract

• A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Good
  • Me
  • Rest

• It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.

  

  Matt Mullenweg

• Black Lives Matter, as a network, will not, does not, has not, ain't going to endorse any candidates. Now if there are activists within the movement that want to do that independently, they should feel free, and if that's what makes sense for their local conditions, that's fantastic.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Free
  • Black

• I got rid of all of my non-stick pots and pans, anything that had a kind of toxic surface in terms of cooking.

  

  Anna Getty
  • Cooking