Quotes About Cooking

Someday, I plan to buy a house in Goa, do only one movie a year, and spend the rest of time painting, learning how to cook, cooking for friends, and doing yoga.

Every time you use the word 'healthy, ' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.

We have friends in Italy who have these old stoves, and they turn out the most beautiful food. All you really need is time, the best ingredients, and love.

Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'

I make lots of casseroles that have protein, veggies, carbs and good fats all together.

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

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

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome

Dad is the world's greatest soup chef.

The Silver Palate

She was making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Most of these seemingly collected by Keith's mother: "Some of the pleasantest recollections of my boyhood are of fried jackrabbit, baked jackrabbit, jackrabbit stew, and jackrabbit pie.")

two to three tablespoonfuls was equal to two pounds of meat, with the advantage that it lends to the laborers' potatoes and peas "a very agreeable taste!

Lou is one of a small group of bachelors whom we sometimes invite over for a meal at the last minute. It is never intimidating to cook for these men, as your culinary talents need only surpass those of Mr. Top and his ramen.

I'm not a person whom the sight of olive oil repels, and I love Greek cooking. We had onion soup with grated cheese on top; then the souvlaka, which comes spiced with lemon and herbs, and flanked with chips and green beans in oil and a big dish of tomato salad. Then cheese, and halvas, which is a sort of loaf made of grated nuts and honey, and is delicious. And finally the wonderful grapes of Greece.

Think of this: never before this generation has the average person been able to afford to have somebody else prepare his meals. You