Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.

Our clients wanted the restaurant experience, not their mother's buffet dinner - so we reached out to that world and hired a series of restaurant chefs: Robb Garceau from Jean Georges, Cornelius Gallagher from Oceana. Cornelius completely revolutionized our menu; he did a stint at El Bulli, and one of the techniques he brought back was sous-vide cooking. Our current chef, Patrick Phelan, continues to grow the vision.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.

Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said. "I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

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.

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.

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

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

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

Pray how does your asparagus perform?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!

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

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

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler

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

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

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

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.

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