Quotes About Cooking

I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.

I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.

Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food.

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

When I'm working, I need to be pretty disciplined, but I do like to enjoy my food. I like to keep it fresh and wholesome. Preparing your own food can be a great way to unwind.

My mom is my great supporter. It's always nice to have her around. She can cook. It's nice to have some home-cooked food sometimes.

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.

I am very picky about my food, and I'm very health oriented, so I always try to cook.

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy.

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.