Quotes About Cooking

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

Life is like a cooking pot. If you cook something good, you well get something tasty. If you cook something bad, you will get something bad.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Hang on there," the man cautioned, "you're still medium rare. I'm gonna cook you until you're charbroiled.

She'd been notoriously bad, had had a reputation among their Chicago friends for possessing a flair for the soggy, the lumpy, the burned.

Can't say that I have." "It's not too hard if you ignore all the hard ways to do it. Just squeeze a pomegranate in a juicer, heat the juice enough to mix in an equal amount of sugar, and then for each cup of juice, add an ounce of pomegranate molasses and half a teaspoon of orange-blossom water. Simple as that.

We?' She smiled, handing me the carton, picking up her suitcase, waiting for me to open the door wide and let her inside. 'One thing you should know about me, Lyova. I don't cook.

The first thing you see, covering yards and yards of one wall, is an object that looks like a nickel-plated nuclear reactor, but is really the stove.

Golden Delicious apples reliably hold their shape when cooked and don't exude too much juice, which results in a deeply caramelized round of apples on top of the buttery crust.

David Lebovitz

crêpe is made from white flour only. If buckwheat is used, it's usually called a galette, and

Except a pot in French is not called a pot, but a casserole. Unless it has two handles, in which case it's a cocotte.

2 cups (500 ml) whole or low-fat milk 5 ounces (140 g) semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped Pinch of coarse salt 1. In a medium saucepan, warm the milk, chocolate, and salt. Heat until it begins to boil. (It will probably boil up quite a bit at first, so keep an eye on it.) 2. Lower the heat to the barest simmer and cook the mixture, whisking frequently, for 3 minutes. If you want a thicker consistency, cook it another 1 to 2 minutes.

David Lebovitz

Lucques and Picholine olives,

We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.