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Quotes About Cooking

The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.
~ David Foster Wallace
people outdoors here just scuttle in vectors from air conditioning to air conditioning. The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.
~ David Foster Wallace
Somebody has made those disgusting marshmallowy Rice Krispie things
~ David Foster Wallace
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
~ William Shakespeare
If you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek!
~ William Shakespeare
By now I had taken to sauteing my Xanax for culinary variety
~ Woody Allen
I began getting nauseated often, usually in the dead of night. I attributed it either to a fatal disease or her cooking, but my yearly physical had me in good health and the middle-of-the-night nausea set in even if we ate out.
~ Woody Allen
Whoever put steak and kidneys together in a pie made a serious error in judgment. — Nick Snowbeard
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Whether a gastronomic tour of Italy, an elegant meal at the home of aItalian acquaintance, or "cooking Italian" back in one's own kitchen, the prospect is mouth-watering.
~ Unknown
Whether a gastronomic tour of Italy, an elegant meal at the home of an Italian acquaintance, or "cooking Italian" back in one's own kitchen, the prospect is mouth-watering.
~ Unknown
The pasta was always al dente, an expression which could be pressed into service as the name of a ferocious gangster.
~ Clive James
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
~ Heywood Broun
Told me if I did not smell of the fire then I smelled of the frying pan.
~ Hilary Mantel
I always say a little prayer when I put cakes in the oven," remarked Eve, as she stopped to kiss Rose good-bye. "What do you say?" "I say, 'Please, God, don't let me forget I've put that cake in the oven.
~ Hilary McKay
If what you buy is good, what you make will be good regardless of the presentation. We may eat with our eyes, but we enjoy with our taste buds.
~ Unknown
Can you really cook meth in a hotel coffeepot?" - Cassel "Sure," Jones says, looking into his cup thoughtfully. Guess Mom was right about one thing.
~ Holly Black
It was a kitchen to be useful in.
~ Holly Black
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.
~ Honore de Balzac
Joy always overcooked chicken. She had a terror of salmonella […] She put her fingertips to her hairline. She was sweating. Food poisoning? Savannah's roast chicken had been so wonderfully tender! Was this the price you had to pay for tender chicken? It was too high a price!
~ Liane Moriarty
The thing is, I hate cooking," said Joy. The words rushed out of her mouth: traitorously, venomously. "You've no idea how much I hate cooking, and it just never ends, the cooking, night after night after bloody night. Each night at five o'clock, like clockwork, your father says, 'What's for dinner?' and I grit my teeth so hard I can feel it in my jaw.
~ Liane Moriarty
Heat 1 inch of vegetable oil in a large skillet or wide, shallow pot to about 365 degrees F. (If you don't have an oil thermometer, drop a few bread crumbs in. If they sizzle but don't burn, the oil is ready.) Cut the mozzarella into four slabs, then cut each slab into four pieces, to get sixteen sticks. Spread the flour and the bread crumbs on separate rimmed plates. Put the eggs in a shallow bowl, and lightly beat
~ Unknown
At three I was in my little kitchen preparing a dish of formaggio all' Argentiera . I fried slices of caciocavallo cheese with garlic until it had just melted and then sprinkled this with wine vinegar and fresh oregano before piling it onto a thick slice of rustic bread.
~ Unknown
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
~ Lin Yutang
A good cook was like a good educator; his duty was solely to bring out the talent of the chicken and show it to best advantage, as a good teacher brings out the talent inherent in a young man. Granted that the original talent was there in the chicken, too much coaxing, stuffing, imposing, and spicing would merely distract from its simple beauty and virtue.
~ Lin Yutang