COOKING QUOTES III

quotations about cooking

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Too many cooks spoil the broth.

CHINESE PROVERB

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To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

EMILY POST

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The man who claims he'd rather make love to his wife than eat is probably married to a poor cook.

EVAN ESAR

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I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from.

GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN

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Drink while you cook. Make it fun.

GWYNETH PALTROW

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What we need is a big big cooking pot
Big enough to cook every wonderful
Beautiful, trust worthy, lovely idea we've got

HAPPY MONDAYS

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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

MARIO BATALI

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A good cook has great power to assuage grief by his art.

MOUCHY

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Cooking is revelation and creation; and a woman can find special satisfaction in a successful cake or a flaky pastry, for not every one can do it: one must have the gift.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat.
What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook?
How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser,
And serve it thus to me that love it not?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE

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One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends. People who like to cook like to talk about food. Plain old cooks (as opposed to the geniuses in fancy restaurants) tend to be friendly. After all, without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

LAURIE COLWIN

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We may live without poetry, music, and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books--what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope--what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love--what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?

OWEN MEREDITH

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If you are not working in a fast food restaurant or bakehouse, the same dish will never turn out in exactly the same way twice.

PHILIP DUNDAS

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A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

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I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

SHAUNA NIEQUIST

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

W.C. FIELDS

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The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

EVAN ESAR

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You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can’t you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.

FERRAN ADRIA

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