Cooking Quotes

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

I love cooking and baking.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

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

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown.

I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments - mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives.

It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.

I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel.

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up.

Talking to other people while you're cooking, it doesn't come naturally.

I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.

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

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.

I guess I fell into cooking.

My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.

I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

When I was at the Cordon Bleu things took hours and hours and hours to make. And they were beautiful dishes - and I know how to cook that way - but I was like, 'no one is cooking like this.'

I love being at home and cooking and baking.

Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store.

It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.

I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas.

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

Cooking is always very romantic!

The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

Cooking is chemistry, really.

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.