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Quotes About Cooks

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.
~ Steve Albini
When you look at critics in wrestling, it's a real special fan base. There's a lot of voices, but at the end of the day, there's only one voice that really matters, and that's your boss's, right? There's a lot of cooks in a lot of kitchens. It can be hard because there are some fans you really have to set aside.
~ Ethan Carter III
My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've probably had to go through and raise every menu price now by 50 cents because it took away my profit. I just underestimated what it was going to cost.
~ Tom Douglas
What a strange book. How did we get a lift then?" "That's the point, it's out of date now," said Ford, sliding the book back into its cover. "I'm doing the field research for the new revised edition, and one of the things I'll have to do is include a bit about how the Vogons now employ Dentrassi cooks, which gives us a rather useful little loophole.
~ Douglas Adams
You can tell a lot about your cooks' personalities by their music collection. I personally have such an eclectic collection, partly due to the combining of music libraries with girlfriends past.
~ Johnny Iuzzini
Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor.
~ Jose Garces
We were filming in America and I noticed we were casting shadows like Walnut Whips! The sensible thing to do was go on a diet, so we started rewriting recipes and we're better cooks because of it.
~ Dave Myers
Surprisingly, fish works great for sheet pan dinners because it cooks quickly through direct pan contact.
~ Chris Morocco
God made food; the devil the cooks.
~ James Joyce
Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
~ Alton Brown
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
~ Denis Diderot
New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.
~ Steve Albini
To call the shipboard food terrible was to overpraise it. Our meals were prepared by English cooks, evidently committed to safeguarding their reputation for awfulness. Boiled potatoes, rice, tapioca, and marmalade—no salt, no sugar, no seasoning of any kind. For lunch that day, we'd had rabbit stew, which tasted as if the cooks had left the fur on. Coffee was served from garbage cans.
~ Kathleen Rooney
Meeting writers is usually disappointing, at best. Writers who write sexy thrillers aren't necessarily sexy or thrilling in person. Children's book writers might look more like accountants, or axe murderers for that matter. Horror writers are very rarely scary looking, although they are frequently good cooks.
~ Kelly Link
Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and 'Cooks' Questions' is for those people who want to find out more.
~ Sue Perkins
I come from a family of great cooks and big eaters.
~ Katie Lee
Old European joke: in heaven the cooks are French, the police British, the engineers German, the lovers Italian, while in hell the cooks are British, the police German, the engineers Italian.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
~ Denis Diderot
The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone thinking it was us. In fact, one of the elderly residents of Saltram had left a pan on the oven in her flat. Apparently this happens all the time. The tenant in question is appearing as an extra -- playing one of the cooks.
~ Emma Thompson
Buffalo meat tastes just as delicious as red meat, but it comes much leaner. Because of its leanness, it also cooks more quickly.
~ David Kirsch
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
~ Robert Burton
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
~ Robert A. Burton
I ate, boy. Early this morning. Some awful fish soup. The cooks should be hanged for that. No one should face fish first thing in the morning.
~ Robin Hobb
A mother is so,so selfish that she even cooks the dish for her children only of her own liking only ,but asks them as what they want to have to merely see if their food demand matches with her wish.
~ Anuj Somany