Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time.

Today, India's cooking gas subsidy is the world's largest Cash Transfer Programme.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!

Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

Vegetables to me are - I don't want to say the most exciting part of cooking, but certainly a very exciting part of cooking, because they continue to change. They come into season and they go through different phases.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!

Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

What it requires is that first of all you identify the hazards: Where in your production chain can contamination occur? This could be a simple matter of cooking a product to kill bacteria and making sure that the product is actually brought to that temperature.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene... All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.

What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself being resentful of the idea; "Now you will make a good wife. You can cook, right?" So when people ask me I go, "No, I don't like cooking!

When I'm in the country with all of the kids around and cooking, that's when I'm most relaxed. When I'm in the country I like to cook.

When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner, it's probably going to be a 3-4 ounce portion with heaps and heaps of vegetables.

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.