Cooking Quotes

• I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.

  

  Jose Andres
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Cooking

• I guess I fell into cooking.

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Cooking

• I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

  

  Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Mom

• 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
  • Food
  • Friendship
  • My Family

• Cooking was my lingua franca, my love language.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Love
  • Language
  • Cooking

• I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's beautiful. What I enjoy is taking my food and cooking for myself.

  

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Weeks

• 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.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • People
  • Fun
  • Food

• 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
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Humans

• 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
  • People
  • Cooking

• 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
  • Cooking

• I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Culture
  • Travel
  • Cooking

• 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
  • High
  • Food
  • Bitter

• 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
  • Family
  • Home
  • America

• 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
  • History
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• 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
  • America
  • Food
  • Cooking

• 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
  • Art
  • Made
  • Appeals

• 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
  • People
  • Cooking

• 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
  • Money
  • Cooking

• We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

  

  Hank Stuever
  • Sports
  • Sanity
  • PBS

• When I'm with my kids, I definitely try and be in the moment and wait till the end unless the mess poses a real danger, like slipping. But when I am cooking by myself, I definitely clean as I go to simplify.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Kids

• I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

  

  Joely Fisher
  • Cooking

• Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Cooking

• Gelatins are one of most unbelievable areas in cooking today.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Today
  • Cooking

• 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
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes

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