Cooking Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Whenever a chef cooks for his own ego rather than his guests, he/she set themselves up for ridicule and failure. In the end, it's the service industry. Our goal is to make our guests happy through our cooking.
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In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.
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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
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Great cooking favors the prepared hands.
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Cooking for my son is a challenge. I have to feed him right. He can't eat French fries and candy every day.
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At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.
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As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.
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I want to make sure the cooking industry becomes more and more diverse.
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Now the Thanksgiving meal is just so unnecessarily difficult. I mean even mashed potatoes - it's like the most difficult kind of, you know, medieval idea. All right, instead of just cooking them, why don't you spend, like, eight hours peeling them and then we'll have to mash them up. It feels like prison labor, really.
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I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.
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I guess I fell into cooking.
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I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.
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You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.
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For wok cooking, use oils with a high smoke point and low polyunsaturated-fat content: grapeseed oil, peanut oil, etc. Sesame oil and olive oil will burn and taste bitter. Oils with high polyunsaturated-fat contents like soybean oil will also make your food texturally unpleasant.
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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.
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When we talk about chefs, we often talk about their love of food or their passion for it, but cooking is also about making a living; it's a job.
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I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.
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I used to throw cooking parties in university. Everyone would come over - sometimes you'd just do a mac and cheese, but if you do that better than everyone else, you can get people to come to you.
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I'd say some of my earliest scent memories are from home - just things that were around my house, and my mom's cooking.
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Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
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Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.
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Cooking with your kids and engaging them in hands-on activities are two ways to begin to educate children about the healthy eating, and kick start the important task to help change how the younger generation looks at food and nutrition.
