Quotes About Cooking

Every cook I knows loves to make pizza.

People always want to know what I fed my kids. I gave them real food, not frozen pizza.

Failing ownership of a wood-fired oven, whacking pizza dough straight on to the hot grill is the next best way to achieve that beautiful scorched crust.

Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.

I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food.

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

People must plan their meals better.

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

As far as Italian ingredients, I always have one of those plants of fresh basil in the house, and some mozzarella in the fridge.

The kids are really great at baking cupcakes, cookies, of course - that kind of stuff - but I love delegating responsibilities for dinner so you have them picking herbs, or I have plastic knives for them so they're learning sort of how to chop. It's pretty great.

When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked.

I loved the cooking; that was what I was passionate about, but getting to watch the guests eat - because you could see everything from the kitchen - just watching people eat and looking at the plates when they came back, just understanding, this is such an amazing job.

To me, 'Chopped' is a great platform for championing great causes.

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

Understand that nutrition plays a huge role in athletes' lives, and one of the most nutritious ways to eat is to cook your own food.

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.

To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.

I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it.

I love everything about food; if you took it away you would be depriving me of one of my greatest pleasures. I love the whole process of it - buying it, cooking it, eating it, talking about it, talking over it.