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Quotes About Cooking

What kind of a house doesn't have salt? Low sodium freaks!
~ Keith R.A. DeCandido
What are those bulb things you're slicing?" "You've never seen fennel? It looks like celery and tastes like licorice.
~ Ken Jennings
concluded that the amount of heat exposure needed to kill off the wild yeast in honey is as little as five minutes at 150 F (66° C), or about 22 minutes at 140 F (60° C). I recommend the lower and slower approach.
~ Ken Schramm
Magnificent phrases like 'inductive reactance' flow effortlessly from the lips of guys who can't cook hot dogs or find the flashing blue light in a K-Mart store.
~ Kenn Amdahl
Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!
~ Kenneth Grahame
Cassie was in the kitchen with Jenny.
~ C.J. Box
I am a bake potato bake potato bake potatoooo
~ Caleb Logan LeBlanc
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
~ Calvin Trillin
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
~ Calvin Trillin
ive alwasys said i the cook on the bus i at the beach all the time
~ Gayle Lynds
Tell you what," I said. "I'll learn to cook when you learn to scrub toilets.
~ Gemma Halliday
The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in the bed.
~ Geoffrey Gorer
What"s that?" "That"s a steak for me and mushroom pasta for you. The pasta is made with tofu and palm oil instead of eggs. I cooked it myself. My steak is wrapped in several layers of foil. It"s not touching the container with your food, so no worries.
~ Ilona Andrews
It was just Gaston's luck that Orro's prized duck, which he had worked on for three days, had finished cooking. Gaston cut off another piece, speared a sliver of potato dusted with herbs, and chewed with obvious pleasure. "Should we leave you two alone?" Sean asked.
~ Ilona Andrews
The garlic bread!' Rosemary cried.
~ Ira Levin
Adelaide cooked a plain dinner since neither Will nor Auntie ever knew what they were eating and Will thought interest in food was bourgeois.
~ Iris Murdoch
Her mum thought gourmet cooking was putting a load of fish fingers under the grill instead of in the frying pan.
~ Irvine Welsh
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
~ Isaac Asimov
Sabes, Leticia? Eres la persona más alegre que he conocido, todo te divierte, cocinas cantando y pasas la aspiradora con ritmo de rumba. —Así somos los salvadoreños. Antes decían que El Salvador era el país de la sonrisa, pero supongo que desde la guerra civil eso de andar sonriendo se usa menos.
~ Isabel Allende
He maintained that magic, like cooking and religion, was a particularly feminine affair...
~ Isabel Allende
He had the intellectual capacity of a louse, but shone in cooking up new ways to be cruel.
~ Isabel Allende
Comenzaban por hacer una fogata en el patio con leña y carbón. Encima se colgaba de un trípode una olla de hierro negra por el uso, donde se echaban los ingredientes, en proporción de cuatro tazas de leche por una de azúcar, se aromatizaba con dos palitos de vainilla y la cáscara de un limón, se hervía pacientemente durante horas, revolviendo de vez en cuando con una larguísima cuchara de madera.
~ Isabel Allende
My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience.
~ Alfred Molina
I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was a cook for my old Zen master for many years. So there were two or three dishes that he liked, you know. Teriyaki salmon, a few things.
~ Leonard Cohen