Best Cooking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 19

Source: Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A

“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.”

Facts Quality Creative Produce Higher Capable Fundamentals Cooking Cooks Ingredients Dishes

Book:Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook

Source: Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook

“Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.”

Cooking Bores Decorating

Author:Robert Denning

“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.”

Way Different Stories Cooking Mythology Different Ways Again And Again

Author:Anna Thomas

“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.”

Wells Eye Jobs Used Artist Turns Imagination Mistake Brain Talent Poet Politician Cooking Fighter Cooks Empires Prize Assets Cleverness Builder

Author:Anne Ellis

“What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?”

Memories Cooking Hunger Cooks

Book:Rites of Passage

Source: Rites of Passage

“Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are the way the world is taken in; all that is seen is filtered through an everpresent scientific musing.”

World Way Mind Science Reading Talking Taken Scientist Cooking Edges Musings

Book:Women in Science: Then and Now

Source: Women in Science: Then and Now

“May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.”

Years May Cooking Chinese New Year Rice Greetings Gummies

Book:Joy of Cooking

Source: Joy of Cooking

“Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.”

People Sides Food Cooking Contact Dull Beans Peas

Author:Irma S. Rombauer

“Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!”

Born Cooking Cooks Tested Seasoning

Book:VOLUME 2 APPETIZERS DESSERTS AND BAKED GOODS JOY OF COOKING

Source: VOLUME 2 APPETIZERS DESSERTS AND BAKED GOODS JOY OF COOKING

“The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.”

World Cooking Culinary Relative Acquaintance Prima Donnas

Author:Irma S. Rombauer

“Everything tastes better outdoors.”

Food Taste Cooking

Book:Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon

Source: Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon

“I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.”

Needs Enjoy Sound Cooking Smell Pot Bubbles Involvement Stirring Scraping

Author:Marcella Hazan

“[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.”

Cooking Significant

Author:Marcella Hazan

“80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.”

Done Cooking Italian Italian Cooking

Author:Marcella Hazan

“Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you”

Sex Pleasure Cooking Where You Live

Author:Bill Gates

“The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the more I've come to the conclusion that the collapse of cooking is a big part of the problem.”

Problem Bigs Faces Crisis Cooking Conclusion Diets Collapse Public Health American Diet

Author:Michael Pollan

“One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.”

Reason Too Much Cooking Fats Cooks Corporations Sugar Salt Fast Food

Author:Michael Pollan

“I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be buying real food and not processed food, so that means the farmers will capture more of your food dollar.”

Thinking Mean Important Real Cooking Dollars Buying Capture Farmers Real Food Processed Food

Author:Michael Pollan

“It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.”

Important Use Cooking Fats Corporations Sugar Salt

Author:Michael Pollan

“All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.”

Believe Humans Art I Believe Sports Acting Race Cooking Dancing Human Race Visuals Barriers Leap Visual Art Art Music

Author:Pete Seeger

“I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.”

Thinking Way Long Stills Culture Simple Goes On Cooking Everyday Long Way Rebuilding Long Way To Go

Author:Michael Pollan

“I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.”

Book Different Reading Father Lost Causes Sadness Taste Six Eating Agree Cooking Cooks Obsessed Kitchen Seconds Recipes Tasting Eating Food Happiness Sadness

Author:Richard Simmons

“I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.”

Knows Wanted Class Grew Mom Grew Up Cooking My Mom Kitchen Culinary

Author:Serena Williams

“If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.”

Ifs Way Cooking Compliment Chef

Author:Michael Strahan

“Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.”

Ifs Important Cooking Timing Starting Over

Author:Anya Seton

“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”

“The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.”

Doe Real States Enjoy Differences United United States Cooking South Cooks Southerner

Book:Senator North

Source: Senator North

“Yes, as a people we are spoiled. We look for dinners that take two minutes to cook in our microwave instead of five, and we audibly sigh if the directions on the box require us to stir at the halfway point. Aw, I gotta stir? See what else is in the freezer.”

People Ifs Looks Two Five Minutes Cooking Boxes Dinner Cooks Sigh Halfway Spoiled Microwaves Freezer

Book:I Think, Therefore, I Have a Headache!: A Laugh-Out-Loud Look at Life

Source: I Think, Therefore, I Have a Headache!: A Laugh-Out-Loud Look at Life

“Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.”

People White Solutions Claims Cooking Chocolate Soup Rice Sauce Gravy Noodles Eclairs

Author:Jo Coudert

“It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried out, you can hardly go wrong.”

Cooking Ruins Burning Chickens

Author:Jo Coudert

“cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.”

People Knows Found Know How Cooking Cooks Cookbook

Author:Jo Coudert

“I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.”

Creation Cooking Dishes Recipes Translations Tempting

Author:Ruth Glick

“I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.”

Artist Acting Known Cooking Sketching

Author:Mark Salling

“Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.”

Mind Mean Made Summer Cooking Winter Legs Fats Preserves Ducks Thighs

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.”

Helping Use Aspect Cooking Contact Instruction Storage Pantry

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.”

Feels Cooking Ease Kitchen Hospitality Cooking Love

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

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

Home Cooking Fast Food Great Ones Home Cooking

Author:Bear Grylls

“I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.”

People Mind Creativity Areas Cooking Clean Available

Author:Carla Hall

“My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.”

Ideas Bigs House Half Growing Up Growing Dad Cooking My Dad Cooks Thai Family Time Dad Love

Author:Brenda Song

“Cooking can cure almost anything.”

Cooking Cures

Author:Michelle Dockery

“I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.”

Knows Home Girl Stuff Simple Cooking Cake Southern Pie Chill Baking Love Making Chilling Out

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“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.”

Fun Food Involved Cooking Cooks Having Fun Kitchen Restaurants Food Love Food Safety Cooking Love I Love Food Cooking And Love

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

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

Home Cooking Cents

Author:Colm Meaney

“I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and Im a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really.”

Stills Enjoy Nice Huge Cooking Meat Italian Freak Dishes Bangs Steak Pasta Salmon

Author:Luke Pasqualino

“I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.”

Wish New York Cooking Chicago Truck Brooklyn Food Trucks

Author:Grant Achatz

“It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.”

Hard Levels Cooking Push Yourself

Author:Grant Achatz

“In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.”

Want Ideas Moving Cooking Spots Cooks Kitchen

Author:Eric Ripert

“I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.”

Imagination Cooking Sticks Rely My Imagination

Author:Akshay Kumar

“Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.”

Knows Mind States Whole Order Social Realizing Fire Feminism Position Cooking Heavy Iron Pot State Of Mind Boston Social Order Housekeeping

Book:A woman of fifty

Source: A woman of fifty

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