Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

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.

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

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

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?".

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

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

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

Clam chowder is one of those subjects, like politics or religion, that can never be discussed lightly. Bring it up even incidentally, and all the innumerable factions of the clam bake regions raise their heads and begin to yammer.

Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate...you can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done.

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Cooking can cure almost anything.

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends.

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Cooking is the ultimate giving!

Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

Cooking a fantastic meal is therapeutic. I like the entire process-the chopping, the stirring. At the end, hopefully you get to enjoy a great meal with a friend or loved one.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Cooking is revolution and creation.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Cooking? Oh we were great, you'd take anything and melt cheese on it, and the one who could guess what it was didn't have to wash up!

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

Cooking today is far greater than it ever was, and more importantly, a chef's role today has changed dramatically over the last decade.

Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.