Quotes About Cooking

She cleared her throat once or twice, and said something about poor people should eat a lot of herrings, as they were most nutritious, also she had heard poor people eat heaps of sheeps' heads and she went on to ask if I ever cooked them. I said I would rather be dead than cook or eat a sheep's head; I'd seen them in butchers' shops with awful eyes and bits of wool sticking to their skulls. After that helpful hints for the poor were forgotten.

Little bits were one of Dorey Jewett's gems: small, sweet lobster knuckles that were sautéed in butter. There were no herbs involved, just enough of a Ritz-cracker coating to absorb the butter for ease of eating.

Clams served on Quinnipeague were dug from the from the flats hours before cooking, and the batter, which was exquisitely light, held bits of parsley and thyme. Other fried clams couldn't compare.

Do you cook for yourself then?' 'I live alone, you know. Since my wife died…' 'Yes, of course, Miss Morrow told me.' 'Really? What did she say?' 'Oh, how sad it was and all that sort of thing,' said Jane rapidly with her eyes on the ground.

She could surely rise to a dishwasher, but she prefers to use her children. She believes that a row of children chopping vegetables is a better thing than a machine.

Tuna salad, egg salad, chicken salad, turkey salad, shrimp salad. What difference does it make? It's all just different words for mayonnaise. Pick one.

My training is in the arts of killing and preparing the kill for consumption. I am told you call this home economics.

Wie ich gehört habe, soll es Leute geben, die Spaß am Kochen haben und es jeden Abend tun. Sie schnippeln und würfeln, putzen und schälen, schmoren und dünsten, pochieren und dämpfen und lachen dabei die ganze Zeit wie Irre in einem Glücksrausch.

My ten year old son, at this point, can go into the kitchen and, without a recipe, make cookie dough of some kind. It's not the same every time, but he just knows what it looks like, which is a lot earlier than I ever was involved. I mean, I could make, out of a package brownies and cakes, but not just wing it together. He might be a visionary.

There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that--that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it.

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage. We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

I think that the most important part of Italian cooking is done before you get in the kitchen. And that's in the purchasing of the ingredients.

My mom made something that I always requested for my birthday called mock chicken legs. She would take ground veal and ground pork and mix it up with a bunch of spices, and then take a Popsicle stick and put it inside a little ball of the meat. Then you bake them. It was like a veal-and-pork hamburger rolled in ground-up Rice Krispies. It was delightful.

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

If it's a cooking based reality show I would love to do it because I love cooking.

They asked me to go on 'Hell's Kitchen' but I'm banned from reality TV by my wife. She's not up for that kind of tomfoolery.

People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form.

And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.

When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.

I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen... I don't think I have the patience for cooking.

That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.