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Quotes About Culinary

Dad is the world's greatest soup chef.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
She was making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Of all the so-called variety meats, none presents a steeper challenge to the food persuader than the reproductive organs. Good luck to Deanna Pucciarelli, the woman who seeks to introduce mainstream America to the culinary joys of pig balls. "I am indeed working on a project on pork testicles," said Pucciarelli, director of the Hospitality and Food Management Program at—fill my heart with joy!—Ball State University.
~ Mary Roach
Lou is one of a small group of bachelors whom we sometimes invite over for a meal at the last minute. It is never intimidating to cook for these men, as your culinary talents need only surpass those of Mr. Top and his ramen.
~ Mary Roach
Good luck to Deanna Pucciarelli, the woman who seeks to introduce mainstream America to the culinary joys of pig balls. "I am indeed working on a project on pork testicles," said Pucciarelli, director of the Hospitality and Food Management Program at—fill my heart with joy!—Ball State University.
~ Mary Roach
For a cookbook, Apicius has a markedly gladiatorial style. "Remove the entrails by the throat before the carcass hardens immediately after killing," begins one recipe.
~ Mary Roach
Sleeter Bull,* the author of the 1951 book Meat for the Table, claims the ancient Greeks had a taste for udders. Very specifically, "the udders of a sow just after she had farrowed but before she had suckled her pigs." That is either the cruelest culinary practice in history or so much Sleeter bull.
~ Mary Roach
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The longer the sauce cooks, the spicier it gets.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Kate materialized in a cloud of steam from the kitchen, like a genie in a chef's hat.
~ Barbara Michaels
Girls are impressed by boys who can cook.
~ Bart King
Cheesecake packs a sensual wallop unlike anything in the natural world because it is a brew of megadoses of agreeable stimuli which we concocted for the express purpose of pressing our pleasure buttons
~ Steven Pinker
I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.
~ Devon Werkheiser
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
~ Al Roker
I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.
~ Elizabeth Olsen
Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.
~ Hilary Swank
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I'm very open about the fact that I'm a big fan of day drinking. I also love cooking. I cook all day, and I have to have something in my hand while I'm doing that.
~ Chrissy Teigen
One day I woke up and discovered that I was in love with tripe.
~ Tom Anderson
I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe
~ Mary-Kate Olsen
I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.
~ Jose Andres
I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.
~ Julia Child
I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.
~ Will Ferrell