Cooking Quotes
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You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.
Marcus Samuelsson
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My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
Maureen Forrester
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You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.
Emeril Lagasse
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If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".
Ken Robinson
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Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist
Keith Floyd
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I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.
Alicia Silverstone
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I learned so much more prepping vegetables than I ever did in cooking school.
David Chang
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I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.
Clarence Clemons
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
Maya Angelou
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I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking with my mother at a hot stove when I was five. But the truth is I wanted to cook. Cooking meant being near food.
Alice Dreger
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First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.
Tyler Florence
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My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.
Jamie Oliver
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I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.
Bill Rancic
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'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.
Alton Brown
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My wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens.
Jack Roy
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When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.
Caitlin Moran
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I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen... I don't think I have the patience for cooking.
Ne-Yo
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Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
Julia Roberts
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When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.
Alice Waters
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Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction.
Marcus Samuelsson
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He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
Craig Claiborne
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I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.
Paula Cole
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Wok cooking is intimidating, but it's the most versatile and handy tool in your kitchen.
Andrew Zimmern
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Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.
Jose Andres