Quotes About Cooking

While the set-up of my home kitchen looks very different from that of a restaurant, theres one thing that has remained from my years as a line cook: the stack of sizzle platters thats always by my side. And its not going anywhere.

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.

Very early in my culinary career, while helping another cook prepare the staff meal, I stirred some chopped raw garlic and herbs into a bowl of leftover lentils. The atonement for this sin was so extreme that I've never repeated it: After being chastised, I spent the next 20 minutes fishing out the minuscule pieces of garlic.

Any opportunity I get to melt butter, I continue on to the 'noisette' stage.

Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

I like to grill, like a standard guy. I like to grill steaks and fish.

Nice olive oil is fairly easy to find at your standard grocery store, but there are fewer options of nice vinegars.

I was a decent cook - competent enough to turn out the standard Eighties chalet fare: beef Wellington, banoffee pie, Delia's chocolate bread-and-butter pudding - but it wasn't haute cuisine.

Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.

No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up.

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.

Man, who don't like spaghetti?

I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.

Homemade meals—especially mommy meals—are life's most pleasant fuel.

I like coming back home. Do it every July Fourth. Everybody's cooking, and I'm just being Ben, just Ben, like the little kid I was running around the neighborhood.

Neither me or my wife are any good at cooking.

Meals and eating and that sort of ritual of gathering at a table is such a part of childhood, and that was such a strange moment. It made me nervous to watch my mom cook for us and then not engage in the act of eating with us.

I get nervous cooking for our little house party barbecues. I'm very insecure with my cooking. I tend to throw things away that I'm scared of serving, even though they might be great.

I always thought the name of my first book would be 'The Insecure Chef,' because when I started cooking, I was so nervous.