Quotes About Cooking

I don't really cook much to be honest.

I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.

You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.

Start with the basics: make pancakes, boil an egg, make toast. Get the kids used to getting a bit of toast and understanding it's hot.

I'm a horrendous cook; my mum does my meals. I can only cook beans on toast with cheese.

I cannot cook to save my life - I microwave everything or it's simply scrambled eggs on toast.

I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'

When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.

Making sea urchin pasta is a lot like a toddler playing with Play-Doh: There are a million right ways to do it, and most of them are salty and delicious.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.

Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

Great talents encourage great incapacities, but maintaining an inability to cook an egg or drive a car won't make you into a genius.

Women do cook for themselves you know. You think when we're on our own we sob into a lonely bowl of cereal? This may come as a surprise, but cooking isn't something we only do when there is a man around.

See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.

If I can't read, if I can't make a simple Indian pudding, then I don't see the point in living much more, really. Because aside from a good book, and perhaps, a fresh morning in a dew-covered garden, few things in life give me as much pleasure as magic of making a truly spectacular dessert.

Walking and hiking does this. Cooking does, too. The witchy, grandmotherly type of cooking where you prepare things from scratch and you treat it as a hobby, not a chore to be rushed through. Fermenting vegetables gets me back in sync. Yoga works. Hot and slow and controlled by breath, breaking down to our bone-heavy pace.

No, Mistress of Doubts, I've brought you here to this secluded corner of the city for the nefarious purpose of cooking your dinner myself.

Q: Why can't Chinese barbecue? A: Because the rice falls through the grill.

A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.

I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.