Quotes About Cooking

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food.

Women didn't 'learn' how to cook - you were born knowing how.

Cooking is not a mystery.

You Mean It You cook because you decide to cook. You decide to take it on and everything that comes with it. You cook because you mean it. Your heart and hands work more and more in alignment with your clear intention. You'll see it through because you decided to see it through—and because the work itself is making your love manifest. Food appears!

Go to work on an egg.

I'll flip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you.

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.

When I learned to sew, I forgot how to cook.

Home cooking: where many a man thinks his wife is.

If smoking is so bad for you, how come it cures salmon?

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat.

But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one's own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

If you want to make someone cry, " Bruno said slowly, "you give them an onion to chop. But if you want them to feel sad, you cook them the dish their mother used to cook for them when they were small...

Papa says curses are only stories cooked up to deter thieves. He says there are sixty-five million specimens in this place, and if you have the right teacher, each can be as interesting as the last.

found myself looking at a recipe for Chicken Cordon Bleu, a dish that had revolted me even when I ate it back in the seventies. The ingredients – oil, butter, cheese, cream, breadcrumbs – felt like signposts on the way to a heart attack.

Diana Cowper had enough equipment to cook a Michelin-starred meal for ten but probably went to bed with a boiled egg and two pieces of toast.

You can serve good food on a budget provided you don't waste it.

Kids want to know things - it's just a matter of keeping them engaged with cooking in a way that provides these learning points, while also giving them some degree of control over the finished product.

I inherited my 1960s copy of 'French Provincial Cooking' by Elizabeth David from my mother Gabrielle, who in turn inherited it from her mother Frances. It was my bible when I first moved to Paris aged 26.

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

I've picked butter beans, okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew. I've butchered pigs, chickens. We made our own sausage and pudding.

There's no point just telling the French that you can cook, the proof is in the pudding; if you bake them something delicious then you'll win them over.