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Quotes About Cooking

Old Bay seasoning
~ Mary Alice Monroe
Matthew Thatcher, in his first year at the hall, had drawn and written guides for the cooks and boys, so that all the baron's people were, with much effort, brought up to the level of knowledge equal to that of a juvenile squirrel.
~ Arthur Phillips
When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
~ Ava Gardner
special omelette, so large and complicated that it really should have been considered a full-scale omel
~ Spider Robinson
Even as more wives took paying jobs during the Depression, their unpaid workload increased. Less able to afford the conveniences that had begun to lighten the homemaker's load in the 1920s, women had to sew more of their own clothes, can more of their own preserves, do more of their cooking from scratch. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" was a popular saying of the day.
~ Stephanie Coontz
the last little orb winks behind our mountain Venus peeking one eye over her shoulder I boil water, you dice mushrooms for the sauce remember all the poems we wrote when we were young, I say always about that thin crack between day and night I write you another one right there in the kitchen for old times sake and butter melts on the table old witches know what that means out in the middle of nowhere
~ Stephanie Greene
My mom usually helps her aunt prepare the food, which my grandfather always says is too dry even if it's soup. And her aunt will then cry and lock herself in the bathroom.
~ Stephen Chbosky
That's why our TVs are brimming with so much hot man-on-pan action. You can't channel surf for long without seeing turkey getting stuffed over and over until they finally cut to the gravy shot.
~ Stephen Colbert
My girl has got a bun in her oven, and I guess you know who did the damn cooking.
~ Stephen King
And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.
~ Brother Lawrence
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
~ Sophia Loren
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.
~ Juliet Mills
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
~ Ted Allen
I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.
~ Joely Fisher
I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
~ Amy Smart
When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.
~ Raymond Blanc
Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.
~ Plautus
I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.
~ Joe Jonas
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.
~ Massimo Bottura
I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.
~ Nigella Lawson
If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.
~ Julie Powell
I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.
~ Bobby Flay
Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.
~ Elizabeth David
I love being at home and cooking and baking.
~ Blake Lively