Quotes About Cooking

You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

I don't cook. I respect food too much.

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

Foods to eliminate or minimize include items that are canned, frozen, microwaved, or highly processed. Focus on eating a variety of fresh and freshly-prepared food.

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.

But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.

To get people to eat well don't say a word about health, just cook fantastic food for them.

Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts

It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.