Cooking Quotes
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I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.
Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
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The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.
Carleton S. Coon
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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.
M. F. K. Fisher
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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.
Jose Andres
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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.
Laurie Colwin
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I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.
Jose Andres
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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
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I do a lot of cooking. I've always cooked for my family and my father and I cooked together. It's just one of the things I like to do. If you came around my house for dinner, you'd watch me cook as we sat around the kitchen and cooked and talked. For me, that's centralised... friendship and family around food and cooking.
Brad Lewis
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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.
Kimbal Musk
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I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.
Dries van Noten
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I guess I fell into cooking.
Bobby Flay
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I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.
Blake Lively
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No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
Willa Cather
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I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
Wolfgang Puck
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I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.
Joely Fisher
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Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store.
Blake Lively
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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.
M. F. K. Fisher
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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.
Andrew Zimmern
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If you're not clipping coupons before going to the grocery store, you're overspending. If you're ordering in or going out to dinner because you don't feel like cooking, you're overspending. If you're not tracking where your money is going, you're very likely overspending.
Jean Chatzky
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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
William Carlos Williams
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I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.
Marcus Samuelsson
