Quotes About Cooking

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.

A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.

But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

If you don't have avocados, you can't make guacamole.

Life is cooking us, and we resist because we don't know our purpose in life, the "meal" that is being prepared. The cook says to the chickpeas, "You were once drinking fresh dew in the garden. That was so you could be a nice meal for the Guest. Don't dwell on the self you think you are. Let yourself be transformed into something even better—a meal for the

I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night.

Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.

My dad was a great eater but Mum was the cook.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.

My father was often away with the army, or in London, but mum did a lot of the cooking. She never liked cakes - not baking. Meat. Fish. That's what she did.

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

The rich, hearty flavor of portobello mushroom caps are a dynamite alternative to the traditional burger.

I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islands a few years ago, and we had all sorts of different mushrooms on brioche with pancetta on top, and it was delicious. I had it most days for lunch, so I thought, 'I'll do that when I get back,' and now it's in my cookbook, an absolute favourite.

I can fry hollandaise, I can fry ketchup, I can fry mustard.

I like to cook chicken adobo and do my own laundry.

I've learned to cook, I've got 'Lean in 15' cookbooks - I even make my own sauces. If I have lasagne, it will be homemade with the sheets. It's a little bit geekish but I enjoy it.

I get satisfaction out of making a meal for people that I love and having them enjoy it. But there's not really anything in my life that I do that's just for me that feeds my soul like music does.