Quotes About Cooking

He's carving a roast chicken, and he looks daddish in a wholesome coffee-commercial way but still vital.

I guess I'm a better baker than I am a cook.

I dice up a carrot and an onion and fry it with sesame oil and a little vinegar; then I mix in sushi rice. When it's cooked, I scoop pats of rice into tofu skins. They're like rice balls in little purses.

She quickly jumped back in with her favorite part of cooking, the smells that would infuse the restaurant from open to close. Nutty olive oil , zesty herbs, briny oysters, lusty chocolate, pungent cheese, crisp greens, fresh citrus, bracing vinegar.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

Wayne had roasted a turkey with his dad. They hadn't cooked together in what felt like a lifetime, and it was nice to soak and dice and chop. After Wayne called out why so tough, turnips , it became their exclamation when anything went wrong in the kitchen.

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

Although her book did include compelling recipes for scrapple, ox cheek, and baked calf's head and tips for the preparation of raccoon, possum, snipe, plovers, and blackbirds (for blackbird pie) and "how to broil, fricassee, stew or fry a squirrel," it was much more than just a cookbook.

What an excellent fish dolphin is to eat cooked, he said. And what a miserable fish raw. I will never go in a boat again without salt or limes.

Don't ever let this husband of yours, whoever he is, know you can cook, Dabney Fairchild, or you'll spend the rest of your life in the kitchen. That's the first thing I want to tell you.

My Best Bread, written out twenty or thirty years ago in her mother's strict, pointed hand, giving everything but the steps of the procedure. (A cook is not exactly a fool.)

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

The postal station smelled of fried onions and potato soup.

A real man, the sorceress knew from experience, is an enthusiastic angler, but only using a fly. He collects military figures, erotic prints and models of sailing ships he builds himself, including the kind in bottles, and there is never a shortage of empty bottles of expensive alcoholic drinks in his home. He is an excellent cook, able to conjure up veritable culinary masterpieces. And well—when all's said and done—the very sight of him is enough to make one desirous.

I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books — how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Si una cocinera no huele bien, no es puntual, rápida, prolija alegra y un poco desvergonzada, le había dicho, no sirve para cocinera; puede ser que sepa cocinar pero no sirve para cocinera y tarde o temprano eso se nota.

fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows

The chef was obviously a sociopath.

Toast was one of the few things he could cook well.

To us in Asia, rice is such a staple, we take it for granted. I didn't even think about how I made it until I came to the Western world.