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Quotes About Cooking

Army of soufflés at 'Downton'.
~ Roslyn Sulcas
good omelettes are still hard to come by. They shouldn't be made in a hurried or slapdash manner. Some thought has to go into an omelette. And a little love too. It's like writing a book—done much better with some feeling!
~ Ruskin Bond
Dear Lady, I beg you To cook as you please, But don't overlook the Importance of cheese!
~ Ruth McCrea
She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.
~ Ruth Reichl
While cooking demands your entire attention, it also rewards you with endlessly sensual pleasures... The seductive softness of chocolate beginning to melt from solid to liquid. The tug of sauce against the spoon when it thickens in teh pan, and the lovely lightness of Parmesan drifting from the grater in gossamer flakes. Time slows down in teh kitchen, offering up an entire universe of small satisfactions.
~ Ruth Reichl
Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew
~ Ryan North
Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.
~ S. Truett Cathy
What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food!
~ Margaret Atwood
His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.
~ Margaret Atwood
Here's a Thanksgiving tip. Generally, your turkey is not cooked enough if it passes you the cranberry sauce.
~ Joan Rivers
It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.
~ Phyllis Diller
Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.
~ Nicole Hollander
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
~ Ted Allen
I hate cooking. But I do make the candied yams every year at Thanksgiving. And they're awesome! You could definitely get diabetes and cavities from them, but they're delicious!
~ Marlon Wayans
Thanksgiving is the most complicated meal you can think of. Every night, dinner is just pasta. It's just different shapes of pasta.
~ Jim Gaffigan
It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!
~ Alicia Silverstone
Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made.
~ Jamie Oliver
But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.
~ Eva Herzigova
I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
~ Gail Simmons
My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.
~ Marie-Antoine Careme
I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
~ Barry Goldwater
People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.
~ Michael Pollan