Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

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

...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 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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

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

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.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

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

A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.

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.

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

At one O'Clock, Miss Celia comes in the kitchen and says she's ready for her first cooking lesson. She settles on a stool. She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

Beef is the soul of cooking.

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.