Home Cooking Quotes:

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

- A. A. Milne

source: "Not That It Matters".

topic: Beauty, Food, Home Cooking, Eating Food, Great Food

No one who cooks cooks alone.

- Laurie Colwin

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

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Home, Cooking, Ingredients, Cooking Love, Cooking And Love

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

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

- Marcel Boulestin

topic: Art, Food, Measurement, Great Food, Cookery

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

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

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

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

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

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

All sorrows are less with bread.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Food, Sorrow, Bread, Delicious Food, Food And Drink

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

- Federico Fellini

topic: Food, Cooking, Magic, Italian Cooking, Eating Food

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

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Life, Happiness, Music, Hunger For Food, Delicious Food

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Success, Food, Secret Life, Yummy

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

- James Beard

topic: Cooking, Gourmet, Culinary, Gourmet Food, Home Cooking

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

- William Shakespeare

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

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

- Don Kardong

topic: Sports, Ice Cream, Darkness, Sweets And Desserts, Dessert First

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

- Joan Dye Gussow

topic: Fitness, Cows, Chemist, Processed Food, Organic Food

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

- Doug Larson

topic: Food, Vegetables, Green, Spiritual Health, 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

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

- Julia Child

topic: Work, Silly, Memorable, Home Cooking

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

- W. C. Fields

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

We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

source: 'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

topic: Book, Food, Men, Pining, Without Friends

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

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

- Roald Dahl

topic: Food, Cereal, Shaving, Pencil Sharpeners, Cheap Food

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

- Elizabeth Robins Pennell

topic: Cooking, Kitchen, Onions, Home Cooking

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

- Fanny Fern

source: Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.32, Rutgers University Press

topic: Sex, Food, Heart, Funny Men, Eating Food

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

- Jim Davis

source: Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

topic: Food, Funny Thanksgiving, Cake, Delicious Food, Sweets And Desserts

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

- Julia Child

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

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

- Julia Child

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

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Health, Blue, Meat, Delicious Food, Eating Food

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

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

- Jo Brand

topic: Sex, Food, Heart, Funny Men, Eating Food

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

- Roseanne Barr

topic: Marriage, Sex, Food, Funny Sex, Funny Men

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

- Nora Ephron

topic: Mother, Cooking, Culinary, Home Cooking

Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

- Sabrina Jeffries

topic: Heart, Men, Way, Funny Sex, Funny Men

It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

- Robertson Davies

topic: Mother, Men, Kitchen, Home Cooking

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

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Love, Witty, Hurt, Humor Love, Humorous Love

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

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

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Thanksgiving, Fun, Kids, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.

- Hugh Hefner

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Home, People, Cooking, Home Cooking

Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

- Jimmy Durante

topic: Inspirational, Home, Men, Home Cooking

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Home, Cooking, Fast Food, Home Cooking

No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome.

- Mike Trout

topic: Home, Cooking, Needs, Curfew, Home Cooking

There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.

- Ming-Na Wen

topic: Home, Thinking, Cooking, Cookbook, Great Family

When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my family, and all our relatives and guests. But I said, "I want to live my life as a woman, but I want to study." But, he told me, "Just study at home, you don't need to go out." He said, "If you go to the courses, what will our relatives say? They will lose respect for us." They told me, "We know you're feeling different, but we cannot do anything about it."

- Malina Suliman

source: "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

topic: Brother, Home, Class, Home Cooking