Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?

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

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

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 you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

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.

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.

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

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

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

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 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 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 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.

When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.

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

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 say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener ... this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.

When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

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

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.