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Quotes About Cooking

My work spaces are the cookery school and all the restaurant kitchens. I eat in the restaurants a lot.
~ Rick Stein
When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don't have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.
~ Saul Leiter
I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.
~ Debi Mazar
My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.
~ Keeley Hawes
My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to.
~ Peter Capaldi
My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.
~ Dennis Farina
A box of spaghetti can take seven minutes to cook, and you can make a sauce at that time with perhaps garlic, olive oil, and zucchini. Then you've got yourself a complete meal. The whole thing shouldn't take more than half an hour.
~ Lidia Bastianich
Couscous is not a grain. I repeat, it is not a grain. Much like its brother spaghetti and its sister ravioli, couscous is pasta.
~ Harley Pasternak
I make a good spaghetti sauce and can mix a nice drink.
~ George Pelecanos
My dad cooks beef in Guinness, I don't know why he does that, he adds chocolate to his spaghetti Bolognese too, I'm scared about doing that, it would like chocolate Bolognese if I did it, he likes to make it look rich that's why, so yes, my dad experiments but I don't.
~ Michelle Keegan
I make spaghetti and meatballs, I got that from my mom.
~ Joe Maddon
I remember being a young boy in Spain and watching my parents cook. We didn't go to a lot of restaurants because we didn't always have the money, so cooking at home was just what we did.
~ Jose Andres
He is insatiable in love. His wife is a great cook.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Food is love, " I replied."No, babe, it ain't. But makin' it for the ones you love so they can brag about it is, " Take returned.
~ Kristen Ashley, Sweet Dreams
I believe that forcing researchers to eat their own cooking whenever possible solves a serious problem in science.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
These food recipes are embedded in cultures. Cooking schools are entirely apprenticeship based.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One hundred and thirty IQ points all focused on cooking up doom. Lev can't hope to compete with that.
~ Neal Shusterman
The punishment for making something barely edible was having to eat it yourself.
~ Neal Shusterman
I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm hungry," she said. "Let me cook!" "I'm hungry too. I'll eat you!
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm sick and I'm tired and I don't know where to go or what to do. well, at lunchtime we all ride down the elevator together making jokes and laughing and eating the recooked food; first they buy it then they fry it then they reheat it then they sell it, can't be a germ left in there or a vitamin either.
~ Charles Bukowski
I took the salt and pepper, seasoned the broth, broke the crackers into it, and spooned it into my illness.
~ Charles Bukowski
How come you walk so funny? I was frying some chicken in the pan and the grease exploded, it burned my legs. I thought maybe you had war wounds. No, the chicken did it.
~ Charles Bukowski
Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
~ Phil Donahue