Best 1420 quotes in «cooking quotes» category

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

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

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

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

And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.

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.

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

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

...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.

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

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.

Appetite, a universal wolf.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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 world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

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.

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