COOKING QUOTES III

quotations about cooking

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Cooking is revelation and creation; and a woman can find special satisfaction in a successful cake or a flaky pastry, for not every one can do it: one must have the gift.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.

PAUL THEROUX

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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

MARIO BATALI

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Cooking is like poetry, a combination of ingredients, ideas and concepts in no particular order. If your creativity is influenced by what you've read, eaten or seen cooked, then it's a good thing, something to be applauded.

PHILIP DUNDAS

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Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

NORA EPHRON

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I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

ALTON BROWN

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I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.

SONIA RUMZI

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People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

FERRAN ADRIA

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Just remember--it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.

JAMES BEARD

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Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE

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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

PHYLLIS DILLER

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Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back.

NALINI SINGH

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Too many cooks spoil the broth.

CHINESE PROVERB

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We may live without poetry, music, and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books--what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope--what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love--what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?

OWEN MEREDITH

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A good cook has great power to assuage grief by his art.

MOUCHY

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All cooking is a matter of time. In general, the more time the better.

JOHN ERSKINE

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I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

SHAUNA NIEQUIST

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If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.

RACHEL RAY

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Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

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One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends. People who like to cook like to talk about food. Plain old cooks (as opposed to the geniuses in fancy restaurants) tend to be friendly. After all, without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

LAURIE COLWIN

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