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Quotes About Cooking

During the holidays it's like cooking central time so keeping it safe is an important part.
~ Charlie Barnett
I try a different cookie recipe every time I bake.
~ Devon Windsor
I cook at home all the time and really enjoy it. It's fun family time and we all chip in and help out. We do a lot with our outdoor grill, a lot of chicken or shrimp, and every meal includes veggies.
~ Alison Sweeney
I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.
~ Rita Rudner
I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.
~ Shalom Harlow
I am a fast cook. I have to be, as I am a busy person with many responsibilities and don't have a lot of time for cooking.
~ Sharon Gannon
After that, anytime she caught me near a kitchen she'd start in on me. So I have an automatic sphincter clench any time I reach for a pan. (Devyn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.
~ Steve Martin
It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.
~ Umberto Eco
Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.
~ Juliette Binoche
I love cooking and spending time in mine.
~ Laura Prepon
People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.
~ Marni Jackson
Once upon a time there was a saucer pie. A saucer pie is one that is baked in a saucer instead of a pan; and if you have never seen one, I hope you will before you are a hundred years old.
~ Maud Lindsay
Incubated. And then raised. And then beheaded. And then plucked. And then cut up. And then put on a grill. And then put on a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while. I don't have time. Scrambled!
~ Mitch Hedberg
Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.
~ Nadia Giosia
I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.
~ Ne-Yo
They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is;
~ Mark Twain
They fried the fish with the bacon and were astonished; for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before. They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is; and they reflected little upon what a sauce open-air sleeping, open-air exercise, bathing, and a large ingredient of hunger makes, too.
~ Mark Twain
Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth.
~ Markus Zusak
There was the smell of pea soup, something burning and confrontation.
~ Markus Zusak
Her cooking was atrocious.
~ Markus Zusak
A Husband should always like his wife's cooking BEST. in Sarah's Gift
~ Marta Perry
I wouldn't be worth my salt as a mother if I didn't pass on the family recipes.
~ Mary Alice Monroe