Chefs Cooking Quotes:

No one who cooks cooks alone.

- Laurie Colwin

topic: Cooking Classes, Home Cooking, Chefs Cooking, Cookbook, Cooks In The Kitchen

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

- Craig Claiborne

topic: Art, Food, Cooking, Chefs Cooking, Culinary Love

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

- Julia Child

topic: Food, Plates, Fingers, Chefs Cooking, Fresh Food

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

- Julia Child

source: FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

topic: Attitude, Block, Real, Great Food, Chefs Cooking

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

- Julia Child

topic: Sports, Art, Food, Chefs Cooking, Cooking And Eating

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

- Julia Child

source: FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

topic: Positive, Food, Health, Good Cook, Organic Food

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

- Craig Claiborne

topic: Children, Food, Play, Cooking Love, Chefs Cooking

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

- Julia Child

topic: Thinking, Cooking, Kitchen, Chefs Cooking, Funny Kitchen

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

- Luciano Pavarotti

topic: Food, Attention, Way, Eating Food, Great Food

People who love to eat are always the best people.

- Julia Child

topic: Love, Food, People, Delicious Food, I Love Food

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Food, Adventure, Oysters, Delicious Food, Kitchen Confidential

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

- Julia Child

topic: Funny, Food, Waiting, Indian Food, Delicious Food

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

- Julia Child

topic: Food, Inspiration, Cooking, Chefs Cooking, Cooking And Eating

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Yummy, Delicious Food

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

- Virginia Woolf

source: 1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

topic: Love, Food, Sleep, Hunger For Food, Healthy Living

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

- Calvin Trillin

topic: Funny, Mom, Mother, Being A Mother, Delicious Food

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

- Harriet Van Horne

source: 1956 Vogue, Oct.

topic: Love, Food, Memorable, I Love Food, Food Love

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

- Gerard Depardieu

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Differences, Understanding, Cooking, Chefs Cooking

Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist

- Keith Floyd

topic: Art, Shopping, Cooking, Chefs Cooking, Food And Love

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

- Elsa Schiaparelli

source: 1954 A Shocking Life, ch.21.

topic: Food, Sorceress, Cooks, Good Cook, Great Food

Food is life, life is food. If you don't like my approach you are welcome to go down to McDonalds.

- Keith Floyd

topic: Mcdonalds, Welcome, Life Is, Chefs Cooking

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

- M. F. K. Fisher

topic: Yoga, Exercise, Meditation, Hypnotic, Bad Thoughts

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

- Thomas Keller

source: Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

topic: Food, Soul, Recipes, Cooking Love, Good Cook

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

topic: Food, Thinking, Cooking, Not Enough Time, Pastry Chef

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

- M. F. K. Fisher

topic: Smell, Water, Sound, Indescribable, Bad Thoughts

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Food, Entrepreneur, Cooking, Chefs Cooking, Home Cooking

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

- Paul Theroux

topic: Creative, Cooking, Kitchen, Chefs Cooking, Funny Kitchen

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

- Thomas Wolfe

topic: Love, Food, Sight, Chefs Cooking, Culinary Love

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

- James Beard

topic: Drinking, Food, Thinking, Eating Food, Chefs Cooking

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

- Laurie Colwin

topic: Food, Past, Advice, Cookbook, Chefs Cooking

We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.

- Janet Fitch

topic: Past, Smell, Cooking, Stew, Chefs Cooking