Quotes About Cooking

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

Cooking is so popular today because it's the perfect mix of food and fun.

You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen.

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

The kitchen is a sacred space.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Take care to chop the onion fine.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.