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Quotes About Cooking

The kitchen was the center of our household. I spent all of my time there growing up.
~ Ayesha Curry
I love working in the kitchen, but when that's the only thing you're doing, you have a very myopic view.
~ Maneet Chauhan
I don't cook. I think they named the 'Mike'-rowave after me.
~ Michael Jai White
When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.
~ Zach McGowan
The avocado is native to the Mexican state of Puebla, which helps explain why it's so popular in Mexican cooking.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
Talking to other people while you're cooking, it doesn't come naturally.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
I don't suppose you cook? Tucker inquired hopefully. Did you think because she can start fires she'd be great with a grill? Gator asked.
~ Christine Feehan
Your woman's a badass, Timur,he said. She can't cook worth shit, but she's a badass. [...] Don't ever cross her, Jeremiah warned. She knows more ways to kill a man than I do. Seriously, boss, don't do it. [...]She's inventive when it comes to killing men.He beckoned Timur closer and waited for him to bend down. He looked left and right to make certain no one would over hear him. You're so lucky, man. She's a total babe, he whispered. She's a mankiller, and that's hot as hell.
~ Christine Feehan
I'm so in love with you, baby, we need to get married immediately. You don't just cook in the kitchen and bake, you actually grill.
~ Christine Feehan
That frying pan is looking better and better to me," she muttered under her breath. "I think we're going to have to hang one on the wall in every room, both here and at the clubhouse
~ Christine Feehan
Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooking, and did not despise popular pleasures like pubs and vulgar seaside resorts. In many ways, his investigations into ordinary life and activity prefigure what we now call 'cultural studies.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Charlotte, meanwhile, has peeked into the oven and then closed its door again, announcing, 'twenty more minutes' with the absolute confidence of a great chef, which by God she isn't.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Like last year I took Advance Foods class (which is like cooking for nerds) after lunch, and so I usually took a nap. Which was fine, because I'm not even thrilled about regular foods, so, you know, what do I need with like advanced digital HD wi-fi foods and whatnot? -Abby
~ Christopher Moore
Molly stood over the stove, naked, except for a wide sash from which was slung the scabbard for her broadsword at the center of her back, giving the impression that she had won honors in the Miss Nude Random Violence Pageant. Her
~ Christopher Moore
To say that Effrom was not a particularly good cook was an understatement akin to saying that genocide is not a particularly effective public relations strategy.
~ Christopher Moore
Die Behauptung, daß Effrom nicht besonders gut kochen konnte, war eine Untertreibung von ähnlichem Kaliber wie die Feststellung, daß es sich bei Völkermord um eine nicht besonders erfolgversprechende PR-Strategie handele.
~ Christopher Moore
mushroom pie stuffed with spinach, thyme, and currants.
~ Christopher Paolini
food was cooked, they sat at the rough-hewn tables the dwarves
~ Christopher Paolini
Mother used to shape and score the Spam, arrange the rings of pineapple, then pour a little maple syrup over it and bake it so that it came out looking almost exactly like a miniature glazed ham, and we used to have it with yams on which we melted margarine.
~ Trevanian
Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
Once you're using sides and sauces you're on the right track and you're also following the general principles about how to eat well in the United States.
~ Tyler Cowen
It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...
~ Umberto Eco
Facilis. You take the cheese before it is too antiquum, without too much salis, and cut in cubes or sicut you like. And postea you put a bit of butierro or lardo to rechauffeur over the embers. And in it you put two pieces of cheese, and when it becomes tenero, zucharum et cinnamon supra positurum du bis. And immediately take to table, because it must be ate caldo caldo. - Salvatore
~ Umberto Eco
She'd cook like an angel and fuck like a whore
~ Val McDermid