Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

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.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

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

Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.

Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

Since there is an assumption that a lot of models ‘starve themselves’ to stay thin, I always find it both funny and shocking when people ask me if I ‘overeat’ or am ‘fed better’ on photo shoots to help me stay a ‘larger size.’ While I may be a total foodie and enjoy cooking, I simply eat when I’m hungry and finish just before I’m full.

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.

Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.

Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.

Sometimes while you're cooking it's messy but the outcome is good. The end result is all that counts.

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.

Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Take care to chop the onion fine.

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!