Best Cooking Quotes

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.

The people who give you their food give you their heart.

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.

Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

All sorrows are less with bread.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

I don’t cook. I respect food too much.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

We load up on oat bran in the morning so we’ll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there’s no tomorrow.

So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, Primero comemos, entonces lo demás. That means, first we eat, then we do everything else.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you’re in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don’t even start cooking, because you can’t do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.

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

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: ‘Do the dishes while you’re cooking.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they’re cooking.

Cooking is one of my favourite things – from going to the market, bringing the stuff home and preparing it, to cleaning the kitchen afterwards. I’ve lost my figure a few times. There have been moments when I’ve overeaten, for comfort. But with discipline and hard work, you can get your figure back.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

Cooking is a great way to get back in touch with things that brought us comfort.

Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking and showcase the process through a more simplistic, ethereal approach as an expression of life and living.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

Directing is like cooking, it’s like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I’m putting them together. That’s all I’m doing.

I’m fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything’s cooking.

Do the dishes while you’re cooking.

I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don’t get to do it often . . .

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.