Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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?

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?

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

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.

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.

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

What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

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

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

Wine enlivens the human soul.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.

With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!

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 I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show the command "Walk" to the right hemisphere (the one without language), the patient will get up and start walking. If you stop him and ask why he's leaving, his left hemisphere, cooking up an answer, will say something like "I was going to get a drink of water.

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.

When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

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

When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.

When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.