Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Naim

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

Yotam Ottolenghi

New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.

Timothy Noah

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

Yotam Ottolenghi

My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.

I love quinoa. It's great, it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

Donatella Versace

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

Nana Mouskouri

The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

That would be like us sitting in the kitchen for two hours with our mouths open waiting for a cookie to jump into our mouths.

Raven-Symone

I love to see the smiles on people's faces when you cook for them. I love to go to different restaurants. I want to cook because I know this acting isn't going to last forever, and I want something to fall back on. It's another way to make people smile.

Patricia Marx

I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

Marcus Samuelsson

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

Ruth Reichl

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

You can cook and make it cozy all at the same time.

Resi Stiegler

Julia's sister is cooking for her in the RV. We'll run over there and steal snacks sometimes.

Maybe now I'll be able to have a couple of extra cookies or ice cream after dinner without feeling so guilty. Or, without my wife yelling at me.

Jane Green

I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.

Rick Boucher

We enjoy cooking and share cooking responsibilities. We cook as much for recreation as to eat.

Unfortunately sometimes the cookie doesn't crumble your way.

We?re not there yet. But ... what kind of cookies do you like, and are you willing to pay $10 a dozen for them?

Pork has a lot going for it: It cooks up quickly, it's a good source of protein and it's relatively low in calories.

Nobody knows how many years Native Americans made maple sugar before teaching to the white man. Everyone's got their little theories. The story I heard was there was a day when the sap was running and some fell into the cook pot.

One of the major problems is to make sure that the meat is thoroughly cooked because you can have the pathogenic E. coli bacteria,

Carmen Ejogo

I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

I love cooking and I have really enjoyed my job.

I have always been interested in food preparation. When I was a child, I would watch my mother cooking and learned to cook myself.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.

I have my grandma's cookie jar. The one I put my hand into as a child.

Alicia Coppola

I eat very well. I cook for my family every night. We eat a variety of things, including chicken, fish, pork, lentils, all veggies, pastas, and salads. You name it, we eat it - except salmon, which I find disgusting. Sorry, salmon.