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Cooking Quotes

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The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to achieve this result, he will find it necessary not merely to make use of the freshest and finest goods, but also to exercise the most scrupulous care in their preparation, for, in cooking, care is half the battle.
Auguste Escoffier

Authors on Cooking Quotes: Julia Child Ambrose Bierce Gordon Ramsay Emeril Lagasse Michael Pollan Ferran Adria M. F. K. Fisher Anthony Bourdain Thomas Keller Nathan Myhrvold Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Nigella Lawson Alton Brown William Shakespeare Mario Batali Andy Rooney Jeff Smith Samuel Johnson Grant Achatz Bobby Flay Ted Allen Steve Albini Coolio Ina Garten Alice Waters Irma S. Rombauer Marian Burros James Beard Eric Ripert Fernand Point W. H. Auden Andre Simon Jonathan Swift
2.
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.
William Shakespeare

The strawberry flourishes beneath the stinging-nettle, And wholesome fruits swell and mature to perfection Surrounded by produce of inferior calibre.
3.
The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.
Paul Bocuse

The ostensible 'haute cuisine' often translates to scant portions and a hefty price tag.
4.
Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.
Paul Bocuse

'Without margarine, without ova, there is no incentive to come to France.'
5.
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.
Marie-Antoine Careme

When culinary skill fades from the world, literature shall wither, intelligence be dulled, sociability vanish, and amity dissolve.
6.
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
Diogenes

7.
The greatest dishes are very simple.
Auguste Escoffier

8.
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
Sophia Loren

9.
The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.
Jamie Oliver

10.
A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
Dixon Lanier Merritt

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Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep your style of cooking, but get rid of alcohol. You can keep your cultural dresses, but keep your modesty on the highest level.
Nouman Ali Khan

12.
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
Alexander Fleming

13.
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
Hattie McDaniel

14.
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
Ted Allen

15.
Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.
Jeff Smith

16.
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
Fats Domino

17.
One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.
Juana Inés de la Cruz

18.
But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more.
Juana Inés de la Cruz

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I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
Lillian Gordy Carter

20.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll

21.
Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!
John Smith

22.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce

23.
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill

24.
The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.
Fernand Point

25.
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
Clementine Paddleford

27.
In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.
Fernand Point

28.
A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.
Warner LeRoy

29.
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Raymond Chandler

30.
Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.
P. J. O'Rourke

31.
You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.
Ella Fitzgerald

32.
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry

33.
Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
Yotam Ottolenghi

34.
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
Robert Redford

35.
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.
Carlo Petrini

36.
I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.
Martin Yan

37.
Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.
Auguste Escoffier

38.
He receives comfort like cold porridge.
William Shakespeare

39.
An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.
George du Maurier

40.
Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.
Craig Claiborne

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Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.
Thomas Keller

42.
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
M. F. K. Fisher

43.
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
George Mikes

44.
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
George Nelson

45.
Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?
Curly Howard

46.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Miguel de Cervantes

47.
I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.
Steven Wright

48.
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.
Louis Kronenberger

49.
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.
James Beard

50.
I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.
Todd English