Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time and ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.

A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.

A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

At one O'Clock, Miss Celia comes in the kitchen and says she's ready for her first cooking lesson. She settles on a stool. She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Beef is the soul of cooking.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.

Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.