Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

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 taking basil from a woman will love her always.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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

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.

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'.

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 cooking is about balance and harmony.

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

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

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

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

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.

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

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

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

...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.

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

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

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.

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.

Appetite, a universal wolf.

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?

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

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

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

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 and ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

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.

As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.

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.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.