Cooking Quotes

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

I am Massimo Bottura. I close my eyes and I want to understand where I am, cooking is about emotion, it's about culture, it's about love, it's about memory.

Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll make you a good chicken pot pie.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

The way you make an omelet reveals your character.

Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

If you think well, you cook well.

I love being at home and cooking and baking.

Beef is the soul of cooking.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal.

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?