Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

All millionaires love a baked apple.

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.

Although the cooking of food presents some unsolved problems, the quick warming of cooked food and the thawing of frozen food both open up some attractive uses. ... There is no important reason why the the housewife of the future should not purchase completely frozen meals at the grocery store just as she buys quick frozen vegetables. With a quick heating, high-frequency unit in her kitchen, food preparation from a pre-cooked, frozen meal becomes a simple matter.

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.

...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food.

Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal.

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

Appetite, a universal wolf.

A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time and ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.

Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.