Cooking Quotes
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It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.
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Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.
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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.
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I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.
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Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
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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.
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You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.
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It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense.
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It's amazing to think of the nutritional responsibility you have in cooking for a kid, which then makes you wonder if you're getting enough yourself.
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My interest in food really began with a month's cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not an incredible cook, alas, but a real enthusiast. Food and cooking is at the core of entertaining, and my passion grew and grew.
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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
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The house is always full, and we're always cooking - outside, inside, for six, eight, a dozen, 20 people.
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I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.
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My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.
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Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.
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I don't barbeque myself because that would involve me cooking. And whereas I can, I'm not a very good cook.
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My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.
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Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
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I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.
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Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
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My poor cooking is legendary among my friends.
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I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.
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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.
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The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!
