Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

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 tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

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

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

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

Beef is the soul of cooking.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

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

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.

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.

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.

...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

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.

Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.

Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

Chefs today choose to step onto that treadmill where they have to be seen. Every day they have to go to this party, they have to go to that party. But then you think "Who is doing the cooking?".

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.