Cooking Quotes

• When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

  

  Cat Cora
  • Family
  • Healthy
  • Greek

• I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Some

• I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

  

  Amy Smart
  • Christmas
  • Wine
  • Cooking

• Be aware of what you cook tomatoes with. The high acid content of the tomato slows down the cooking process of some other foods. Dried beans cooked with tomatoes added to the pot can take up to 20 percent more cooking time than beans without tomatoes added.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• There's a reason I write articles and go out for good dinners: because I'm better at research than cooking. And there are people who are much better at cooking than research, so it's mutually beneficial for us to specialize.

  

  David Autor
  • People
  • Good
  • Cooking

• I like being at home and cooking.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Home
  • Cooking

• My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Christmas
  • Cooking
  • Grandmother

• As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they're in the kitchen cooking. So it's understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Work
  • Business
  • Understanding

• I love cooking and eating - I'm a total foodie. It started off as a survival thing as a student, when cheese and potato pie was all I could afford to make. My most successful results come from concocting something with leftovers. Any chef will tell you that you should taste as you cook, so I might make it a bit more spicy, yogurty or eggy.

  

  Neil Morrissey
  • Cooking
  • Survival

• We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Time
  • Food
  • Cooking

• My belief is that my wife should be at home looking after my kids and cooking and cleaning. She's a very privileged woman to have a husband like me. Not everyone's in her position, but the ones who are are very lucky. That's my opinion.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • Home
  • She
  • Kids

• Everyone seems to ask me the same 10 questions, and high on the list is, 'What pans should I be cooking with and why?'

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Why
  • High
  • Cooking

• In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

  

  Curnonsky
  • Kitchen
  • Perfection
  • Simplicity

• Cooking gives you the ability to grow as a person and to give yourself confidence. You can invite people around, you can sit down and eat together and it makes you feel about ten feet tall because you've done it with your own hands.

  

  William Katt
  • People
  • Together
  • Giving

• I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Food

• I'm a five-seasons griller! Did you know I added a new season? Living in Cali, I'm cooking in the yard all the time. I don't care what the weather is like. My hair is impervious to any kind of dampness, so I don't have too much to worry about.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Hair

• By cooking with your kids, you can help them understand that food is a powerful tool in connecting human beings.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Food

• I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

  

  Udo Kier
  • Life
  • Sky
  • Cooking

• If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal. You have to be able to identify what you're eating. One of my worst experiences is when I can't tell what I'm eating. It is a waste.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Cooking

• Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

  

  Wolfgang Puck
  • Painting
  • Culinary
  • Combining

• As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

  

  Leon Krier
  • Life
  • Good
  • Creativity

• Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

  

  Milton Glaser
  • Cooking
  • Computer
  • Microwaves

• All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Men
  • History

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