Cooking Quotes
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Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.
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Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.
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Once when I was cooking I burned my arm with scalding water. I went to the Emergency Room of the Hospital. When the doctor came in he looked at me and looked at my chart, and looked at me and looked at my chart, then looked at me again and said, "I loved your show!" He told me that when he was doing his internship he would come home every night stressed out, but he would watch a late night rerun of the Andy Griffith Show and relax and fall asleep. He said, "I wouldn't be a doctor, if it wasn't for the Andy Griffith Show".
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In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.
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I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.
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It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.
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I'm fantastic at cooking up stories. In the kitchen, I can, at best, make tea and a badly shaped dosa.
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I love cooking shows! I'm not a bad cook myself, but I must say that I admire the creativity of those young chefs. It makes me jealous... and hungry.
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I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.
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I always thought the name of my first book would be 'The Insecure Chef,' because when I started cooking, I was so nervous.
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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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I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.
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For me, cooking is the only way I know how to show my love. That's why I am so passionate about food. It's such a love language.
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When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.
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If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.
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Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
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Sometimes I look up a recipe for chicken and tomatoes and end up cooking pork. The inspiration gets lost in translation.
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Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.
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For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
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As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted
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The thing that people have said over and over again, especially people who don't cook, is, 'I watch your show, the food makes me hungry, and I think I can make that.' That's exciting because we've heard that a lot of people watch cooking shows but don't make the food.
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I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.
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The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
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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.
