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Quotes About Dishes

I think it's safe to say I love cooking as much as I love sports. I love creating new dishes and just experimenting in the kitchen, but I never compromise on taste.
~ Kelly Gale
I am a big fan of Korean food.
~ Leo Sayer
If you look at the soap bubbles in the sink when you're doing dishes, you'll see the incredible diversity of shapes in there. There are cubes in there; there are decahedrons and tetrahedrons; there are odd, irregular shapes without names, you know.
~ Tom Noddy
I have a great love for cuisine, so I'm always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India.
~ Romain Grosjean
Some nights, a romantic dinner can be killed by having to do dishes afterward, so it probably suits you better to go out for dinner. But I love cooking and always have.
~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan
When the meal was finished and the dishes had been put in the washer, Mr. Drew and Nancy went to his study, a comfortable room with book-lined shelves, deep-seated leather chairs, and a wide, highly polished mahogany desk. Nancy sat down in a yellow club chair, then said eagerly, "Come on, Dad, don't hold out on me any longer about this case of yours.
~ Carolyn Keene
Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .
~ Calvin Trillin
I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was a cook for my old Zen master for many years. So there were two or three dishes that he liked, you know. Teriyaki salmon, a few things.
~ Leonard Cohen
Food is entertainment now. People tune into 'Top Chef,' and they're not trying to replicate the recipes. Anthony Bourdain is entertainment. Instagramming your dishes is entertainment.
~ David Sax
Once you start thinking of different dishes in terms of how they're heated, you quickly realize that the key to successfully pulling off a big meal is to diversify. If you plan on five casseroles and a turkey, you're gonna run out of oven space. Don't do it!
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
'Never do the dishes without music,' my brother Mark once advised me - the same brother who once ate a spoonful of refrigerated dog food to escape his turn at the kitchen sink. And really, it may be the most sensible advice I've been given.
~ Anthony Doerr
I'm meticulous about tasting everything at the restaurant, so I taste all the preparations before lunch and dinner. That means tasting around 50 dishes twice. There are times when I think I can't taste another thing.
~ Rick Bayless
I love South Indian food.
~ Rhea Pillai
I've long since learned to be wary of Melissa's sighs. Whenever I finish the draft of a chapter, I read it to her out loud—usually while she's washing the dishes after dinner. Not only does this get me out of doing the dishes, but it provides some extremely helpful, if on occasion devastating, feedback.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.
~ Penelope Cruz
Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I like hugs and I like kisses, But what I really love is help with the dishes!
~ Author Unknown
I'm always looking for new ways to create flavorful veggie dishes for my family.
~ Ayesha Curry
and chicken, grits with shrimp and crab, a southern coleslaw
~ Clive Cussler
There was a whole stack of casseroles in the fridge, a leaning tower of Pyrex baking dishes crimped in foil. As if no one knew what to do in the face of such tragedy except to make the heaviest, heartiest, most prosaic dish they could, to give the bereaved something solid to hold on to.
~ Celeste Ng
egg tart, I watched a waiter count up all our dishes
~ Grace Lin
Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A lot of people say it's cathartic to cook, and I'm like, 'How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?'
~ Sherri Shepherd