Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.

I don't really cook meat. I eat a bit of seafood but I'm not really into meat and the idea of cooking it is pretty intense.

I don't really time how long it steeps, but in general I don't plan much when it comes to tea or cooking. I'm more about the feeling.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or what eggs look like when they're cracked out of a shell.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

I don't watch much TV because I'm a very active person. I get up early. I love cooking, walking around NYC, hanging with friends. I looooove going out to restaurants of all sorts. I just dig exploring.

I do the cooking at home. Where we eat no more than 100 grams of meat a day and have 'tons' of fresh vegetables. I prepare the vegetables with a wide range of herbs, spices and such. We also keep on hand lots of fruit, yogurt and great breads.

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)

If a song is cooking in the studio, that's great, but if I can imagine doing it on stage, that's the next level to me. ... Some people love paintings, and some people love poetry, and of course I love all of that, but when a musician is so in control of her instrument, I'm in awe. That's when I start to kind of evaporate into the universe.

...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often . . .

If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions.

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

If I were to tell you that I'm the one who does all the cooking, you'd interpret it as me trying to be some kind of role model. And if I were to say that my husband does all the cooking, you'd say: "Ah, so that's how it is with family ministers.

If the Devil's in yer pants make cheese with him.

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the limits?

If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.

If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

If you think well, you cook well.

If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.

If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.

If you want to think about cooking, and it's a high-five, laid back motion, then flip burgers and dress Caesar salad, don't try to pitch in the premier league of restaurant. Build up to it, by all means.