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Quotes About Cooking

Bacon, n. The main reason you're not a vegetarian.
~ Internet meme
When I learned to sew, I forgot how to cook.
~ Author Unknown
Come, follow me by the smell, Here are delicate onions to sell, I promise to use you well. They make the blood warmer; You'll feed like a farmer: For this is every cook's opinion, No savoury dish without an onion; But, lest your kissing should be spoil'd, Your onions must be thoroughly boil'd: Or else you may spare Your mistress a share, The secret will never be known; She cannot discover The breath of her lover, But think it as sweet as her own.
~ Jonathan Swift, "Onions"
My dear young lady, there's no such thing as a little garlic.
~ Judge, 1921
Thyme is of the essence.
~ Internet meme
...fry me an optimist for breakfast.
~ Mark Twain
And you think the Lord gives attention to such little details as how long a potato should cook?" asked Ruth earnestly. "Why yes, dear," answered the mother, "if you put a matter, even a little matter, into the Lord's hands to guide you, and trust that He will, of course He will.
~ Grace Livingston Hill
If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
~ Groucho Marx
WHAT WAS ZELDA doing in the seconds before her front door was kicked in? Before the wood securing the dead bolt disintegrated into daggers and left the chain lock dangling like a mugger-torn necklace? She thinks she was cooking.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.
~ Guy Fieri
Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
An unwatched pot boils immediately.
~ H. F. Ellis
Now get out in that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans
~ James Herbert
She was too good a cook and I was too faithful a disciple of her art.
~ James Herriot
He scraped a pork chop and two eggs out of the frying pan and slid them off the spatula onto a plate. "You sure you don't want any?" "You know how much grease is in that stuff?" "That's why I've never had problems with arthritis. The grease in your food oils your joints and your connective tissue. Nobody in my family has ever had arthritis." "Because they didn't live long enough," I replied.
~ James Lee Burke
Huh - Why is Max in the kitchen? Dr.Martinez: We're cooking. Gazzy: She's just keeping you company, right? Dr.Martinez: No, she's cooking. Nudge: Cooking...food? Max: Yes, I'm cooking food, and it's great, and you're going to eat it, you twerps!
~ James Patterson
We know," Nudge said apologetically. "It's just—she's going to make sweet potatoes with raisins and little marshmallows on top.
~ James Patterson
The Dick tells us that Denny once worked on some arson cases, but I'd wager a mortgage payment that those cases took place when you created fire by rubbing two sticks together so you could cook the stegosaurus you killed with a spear and dragged back to the cave.
~ James Patterson
Because frying bacon is how we stoic Irishmen say I love you.
~ James Patterson
porcini-asparagus
~ James Patterson
Orange juice and barbecue sauce. Then slow cook them at two fifty for four hours.
~ James Patterson
She sugared and milked
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately, I cook for two boys, and they don't care what it looks like on the plate, and neither do I.
~ Judy Gold
Where we can, I'd like to cut out sugars. I don't want to make food that is unhealthy.
~ Damaris Phillips