Quotes and Sayings About Cooking

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Cooking #Sides #Showy

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
-- Akshay Kumar

#Imagination #Cooking #Sticks

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
-- Al Roker

#Family #Cooking #My Family

Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate...you can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Two #Confusion #Cooking

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Ducks #Cooking #Adjectives

I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
-- Alan Jackson

#Real #Love You #Cooking

When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.
-- Albert Hadley

#Differences #Design #Cooking

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
-- Alexander Pope

#Eggs #Cooking #Vulgar

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
-- Alice Waters

#Cooking #Dieting #More Time

It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.
-- Alice Waters

#Creative #Cooking #Quality

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.
-- Alice Waters

#Children #Kids #Cooking

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

#Husband #Cooking #Favourite

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto

#Fun #Food #Cooking

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.
-- Alton Brown

#Food #Cooking #Recipes

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.
-- Alton Brown

#Evil #Bird #Cooking

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

#Simple #Eggs #Cooking

My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
-- Alton Brown

#Book #Cooking #Ingredients

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.
-- Alton Brown

#Cooking #Stories #Way

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.
-- Alton Brown

#Dark #Men #Cooking

Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.
-- Alton Brown

#Children #Pbs #Cooking

The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.
-- Ana Castillo

#Men #Cooking #Cooking Love

The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.
-- Anais Nin

#Strong #Cooking #Black

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
-- Andre Simon

#Art #Cooking #Unselfish

It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.
-- Andrew Schneider

#Thinking #Creative #Cooking

It’s just starting. I think it’s going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food, and it’s all been exploited. The Filipinos combined the best of all of that with Spanish technique. The Spanish were a colonial power there for 500 years, and they left behind adobo and cooking in vinegar — techniques that, applied to those tropical Asian ingredients, are miraculous.
-- Andrew Zimmern

#Thinking #Years #Cooking

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
-- Andy Rooney

#Food #Thinking #Cooking

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
-- Ann Richards

#Country #Block #Cooking

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.
-- Ann-Margret

#Cooking #Kitchen #Fiction

Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.
-- Anna Thomas

#Cooking #Different #Stories

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

#Cooking #Taste #Process