Cooking Quotes

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.

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.

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.

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

The greatest dishes are very simple.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

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.

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

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

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.

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.