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Quotes About Cooking

lifted the silver lid off the hot plate to smell
~ Unknown
I have only one rule in this kitchen. The cooks' energy gets passed into the dishes. Only food prepared with love will nurture.
~ Unknown
Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.
~ Monty Python
Oh, you have a kitchen! I'm gonna like this place very much.
~ Morrie Ryskind
Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.
~ Nadia Giosia
You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
~ Nadia Giosia
Sentinel meeting tonight," Ria told her. "At Lucas's place." "Time?" ... "Seven. Sascha's doing dinner." "God save us all." Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back.
~ Nalini Singh
Pa Larkspur?" She smiled. "Don't be so chauvinistic. He's the best cook in the county. His baskets bring in more money than any others at the picnic auctions." "Jesus. Baskets? Picnic? Just how country is the Nest?" "Very." His horrified expression made her laugh. "Clay, you live in a tree. I don't think you should throw stones.
~ Nalini Singh
Ten years was a long time for evidence to age and fade. For flesh to disappear. For everyone to forget that Nina Parvati Rai had been a living, breathing woman who'd loved music and cooking and had a mind like a computer. In another life she could have been a professor. In this life she'd been a rich man's wife. Now she was just bones.
~ Nalini Singh
They were just little families cooking beans and planting and hunting a deer now and then, and having babies and laying their old folks to rest, not harming anyone, just living...I know that Indians aren't no dirtier than any white folks and cleaner than some. Not stupid, either. But I saved my breath. The likes of her isn't going to listen nor be changed in the mind just from hearing sense. Some people sense is wasted on and that's purely a fact.
~ Nancy E. Turner
Sándwiches de ensaladilla —dijo con voz normal, abriendo paquetes envueltos con papel de aluminio— y de queso con kétchup. Plátanos y pastel de especias. —Sonrió—. No puedo garantizar la calidad del pastel porque es el primero que hago y mi abuela ha tenido que darme indicaciones hasta el final. También traigo café. Seguro que preferirías tomar vino, pero no me llegaba el dinero y a veces no se creen que tenga dieciocho años.
~ Nancy Garden
Overcooked asparagus dripped off the rim of a platter like clocks in a Dalí painting. And
~ Unknown
The automatic rice cooker was launched in 1955 in Japan, revolutionizing housewives' daily routines. Before that, people cooked rice in a heavy pot over a stove.
~ Unknown
OY! Stop playing around and lets cook already!" *smack* J-just now, that made a really loud noise.." Do you wanna hear it again?" N-no, you'll just hit me again!" Kyo and Tohru
~ Natsuki Takaya
Well, for what's good, you have to go somewhere else. But for what Mother used to make, dis is da place...
~ Neil Simon
Briefly everything was stopped, as if a hand had reached out and paused the world in its turning. She stood by the cooker now watching him, the pale blueberries of her eyes, watching him with pride, her two hands brought up to her mouth the way she always did when she had feelings two large for words.
~ Niall Williams
Jij neukt me vanachter terwijl ik de pennette ai quattro formaggi doorroer.
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
But many other activities also called for greater independence, from home cooking, to home haircuts, to the performance of minor home repairs. Why risk having a plumber come over if he might have the virus?
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
For someone grieving, cook with chives, ginger, coriander, and rosemary. Theirs is the pungent flavor, which draws grief up and out of the body and releases it into the air.
~ Nicole Mones
Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.
~ Nigel Slater
I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea.
~ Nigel Slater
I have become more interested than ever in the effect of a diet higher in 'greens' than it is in meat - both in terms of my own wellbeing and, more recently, those implications that go beyond me and those for whom I cook.
~ Nigel Slater
Gießen Sie sich einen Schluck ein, bevor Sie anfangen zu kochen.
~ Nigel Slater
Nichts ist so nützlich und vielseitig wie ein kaltes Brathühnchen.
~ Nigel Slater