Quotes About Cooking

We don't have a no-dessert rule, but we do have a no-bad-ingredient rule. Everything from scratch.

I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!

My cousin owns restaurants, and I used to work in his restaurants with his chef. I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

I cook every night: it's part of the marriage pact.

If you eat broccoli steamed or boiled, it's not very exciting, but you can roast it with things like turmeric and make it amazing. It's all about how you cook something and what you pair it with.

You have to respect the culture you are cooking in, yes, but you have to respect the palate you are cooking for, too, and you have to adjust to that palate.

Never crowd a pan with too many mushrooms. They give off an enormous amount of moisture. And there's nothing worse than a braised mushroom, other than a lot of braised mushrooms.

When done right, sheet pan dinners are a dream come true: Your whole dinner goes into the oven on one pan and comes out ready to eat. But it takes a little finesse and a few rules to get everything done right.

Cooking is physical; it's easier to learn than playing golf. You chop food, you pan fry it - what else is there to it?

In my childhood home, the chip pan was always on the go.

Not a brussel sprouts fan? Try them shredded and fried in a pan with bacon - no one can say 'no' to them then.

I'm not into pancake things. I'm into eggs. Lots of eggs.

People are so used to eating terrible pancakes, no matter how you mess up, they're going to be great. And if you make fresh orange juice, they'll be over the moon.

When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.

As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.

You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame. It's the media and the food industry: they've fed our panic around time.

It was quite weird when we met, because we were both the ones who cooked in our own groups. When I was married, I did the cooking at home, same as Si did. It was like a parallel universe. We were both born hungry, weren't we?

Women are encouraged to go on an emotional journey of self-care after a divorce, while men are expected to need help learning how to cook and parent on their own.

A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.

For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.

I had a baptism of fire when I cooked in the Little Paris Kitchen.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.