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Quotes About Cooking

My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.
~ Megan Fox
Cooking, I mean, food, cooking foods is just everything that I do from morning to night. It's how I choose to live my life: through cooking, people that are in food culture. And I love it.
~ Rene Redzepi
My home life is very much about getting up in the morning and getting to the gym or getting on my bicycle and making sure that I get to cook dinner for my boyfriend.
~ Erika Christensen
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
~ Maureen Forrester
Garlic is as good as ten mothers.
~ Les Blank
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
~ Robert Mondavi
I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
~ Maya Angelou
I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
~ Elizabeth Olsen
Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
~ Ferran Adria
I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
~ Siobhan Fahey
Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
~ Calvin Trillin
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
~ Paul Prudhomme
Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.
~ Laura Prepon
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.
~ Lela Rose
I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.
~ Emeril Lagasse
My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.
~ Rita Rudner
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
~ Andre Dubus III
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
I love to mix things up and create new dishes in the kitchen. I love cooking shrimp scampi and having a glass of Pinot Grigio while listening to music.
~ Zulay Henao
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.
~ Marco Pierre White
In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.
~ Gordon Ramsay