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Quotes About Cooking

Homemade soup has extra nourishment that store-bought will never have. Love, broth, and salt can heal many things.
~ Terri Guillemets
Our camp-kettle, filled from the brook, hummed doubtfully for a while, then busily bubbled under the sidelong glare of the flames—cups clinked and rattled—the fragrant steam ascended; and soon this little circlet in the wilderness grew warm and genial as my lady's drawing-room.
~ Alexander William Kinglake
Wouldn't it be awful if spinach hain't really healthful after all th' trouble it takes t'git the sand out of it?
~ Kin Hubbard, 1929
Ripe 'sparagrass, Fit for lad or lass, To make their water pass: O, 'tis pretty picking With a tender chicken!
~ Jonathan Swift, "Asparagus"
Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
~ Jeff Smith, 1986
Vegetarians taste better.
~ Author Unknown
Half of us are going to come out of this isolation as amazing cooks and the other half as drunkards.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
~ H. L. Mencken
Mashed Ginger Yams 1½ pounds yams ? cup grated ginger 2 ounces butter 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme 1 cup buttermilk salt and pepper to taste Peel, cook and mash yams. Add remaining ingredients. Season with salt and pepper.
~ H. Leighton Steward
Say hey, good lookin',What you got cookin',How's about cookin' something up with me?
~ Hank Williams
I envision a trendy upscale diner, not too expensive, where you can get well-made, beautifully presented homestyle cooking- savory meat loaf, steaks, roasted chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, wiener schnitzel, pie à la mode, little baskets of five different kinds of homemade bread.
~ Hannah Mccouch
even the knives and forks had a social clatter as they went on to the table; and the chicken and ham had a cheerful and joyous fizzle in the pan, as if they rather enjoyed being cooked than otherwise
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Possum soup, all nice and thick with peanuts
~ Harry Turtledove
Fire and cooking were necessary precursors to our use of food as social lubricant, as facilitator of culture and connection.
~ Heather E. Heying
I got a fascination with food.
~ Heather Mills
Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.
~ Laurie Colwin
This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true.
~ Laurie Frankel
When it was their turn to cook, she and Penn made elaborate, delicate dishes, too rich, too complicated, too expensive to waste on the everyday, to waste on the kids. They used their good china. They drank expensive wine.
~ Laurie Frankel
I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.
~ Lea Michele
As soon as the pizza was ready, Monk cut it into eight even slices.
~ Lee Goldberg
Joe ordered a steak, well-done
~ Lee Goldberg
A nutritionist helps me eat healthily at home.
~ Leighton Meester
This toast feels raw. Is it safe to eat raw toast?
~ Lemony Snicket
The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.
~ Lemony Snicket