Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.

Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

Pray how does your asparagus perform?

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

Radishes grow just about anywhere. People think, 'Oh it's just a radish.' But radishes are delicious, and people don't think of cooking them.

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

Really the only motivation is through deliciousness; cooking great food that people want to eat again. I want them all to achieve what they all want to do, and I ask then all what they want to do in 5 years. I don't care what the answer is, I can help them all get there as long as they tell me what they want.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.

Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.

Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.

Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

Since there is an assumption that a lot of models ‘starve themselves’ to stay thin, I always find it both funny and shocking when people ask me if I ‘overeat’ or am ‘fed better’ on photo shoots to help me stay a ‘larger size.’ While I may be a total foodie and enjoy cooking, I simply eat when I’m hungry and finish just before I’m full.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.