Cooking Quotes
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.
The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.
I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done.
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.
In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.
Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.
I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.
Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.
TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
