Cooking Quotes
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I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded.
Paula Poundstone
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I'm not sure I'm a good cook. But I like cooking, and it's a real family thing - an expression of love being together.
Genevieve O'Reilly
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Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Craig Claiborne
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I baked the coffee cake recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' over and over again when I was a kid.
Alex Guarnaschelli
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In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.
Bob Blumer
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I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.
Paula Deen
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I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
Al Roker
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I'm a complete foodie, but I'm a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that's amazing.
Emily Ratajkowski
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It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, "Wow, I'm really cooking.
Tony Bennett
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I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
Emeril Lagasse
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There's only one secret to bachelor cooking - not caring how it tastes.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'
Julia Roberts
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I studied cooking in Spain after college.
Jose Garces
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My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
David Dinkins
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There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!
Margot Robbie
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As a self-proclaimed cooking disaster, I try to makes things that I think I can easily master.
Adam Rippon
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I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.
Eddie Huang
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I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.
Zarin Mehta
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The most effort you should expend should be cooking. If you could cook while lying on a couch, that would be perfect.
Liz Tuccillo
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One of the key things is to encourage people to have a go in the kitchen and not to be embarrassed by it. Try and spend a couple of nights a week cooking something up. It doesn't have to be complicated, it can be something really simple.
William Katt
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It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged in a competition. And that's what cooking in a high profile restaurant is. It's a competition. You're up against every other three-star restaurant in your city, and if you want to stay in business, you'd better deliver.
Joe Bastianich
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Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Once a week, I spend a day luxuriating in bed. I like staying in my house, pottering around, and maybe cooking or just laying around reading. I love doing yoga and transcendental meditation.
Heather Graham
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Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.
Art Spiegelman