Cooking Quotes
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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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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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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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My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.
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Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are
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Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
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Marge, it's 3 AM. Shouldn't you be cooking or something?
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There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.
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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.
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Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.
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The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.
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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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A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.
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Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
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At the gym, men are just as self conscious and check themselves out in the mirror just as much as women do. In regards to cooking, men can do more than BBQ. All you need to do is ask—but be sure to do it after the game! Oh, and, men do like salads, especially if they are topped off with bacon!
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You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.
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Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.
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I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.
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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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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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In our house, we do everything whole: whole milk and full-fat cheeses. And I use ghee and coconut oil for cooking.
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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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If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.
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Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.
