Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Pollan

The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the more I've come to the conclusion that the collapse of cooking is a big part of the problem.

Michael Pollan

If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.

Michael Pollan

It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.

Michael Pollan

Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

Michael Pollan

One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

Michael Pollan

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

Tom Hiddleston

At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.

John Milton

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

John Smith

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

Michael Strahan

If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

Maurice de Vlaminck

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

Nigella Lawson

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

Nora Roberts

Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?

Mark Ruffalo

Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of this planet. There is no need to burn anything anymore.

So far we haven't grown enough to sell or really cook with yet, though.

She taught him to cook from her chair. And he learned to cook pretty well.

O. Henry

She was the one. My grandmother taught my mom and the rest of us how to cook everything that we serve here.

John Williams

People will learn things like emergency first aid, how to cook with no power and how to find shelter in an emergency.

John Betjeman

Phone for the fish-knives, Norman, / As Cook is a little unnerved; / You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes / And I must have things daintily served.

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.

But what you can't do is be selling kids cookies at 10 o'clock in the morning so that they're not hungry at lunch.

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.

Merry Clayton

My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.

Fresh fruits are so untainted. We don't process them, cook them or package them. There are some fruits out there that are packed with natural energy that kids like, like kiwi fruit, ... Kiwis are part of the super fruit category. One kiwi has all the vitamin C you need for the day.

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.

He was a real family man. Every Sunday he would cook up this big feast over at his house, and my wife and I would come over for dinner. His daughters were taking dance lessons, and he used to go to all the recitals. He was the type of guy who would make you feel good about yourself. You always got the sense that he was on your side.

Daniel Boulud

I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.

If we follow these three rules ? wash your hands, cook your food and if you're sick, stay home ? we'll eliminate upwards of 90 percent of these kinds of infectious diseases.

I got together Grandma's recipes and a very nice Trinidadian woman to cook the food, and we opened up.

If we decide to keep on the track we're on now and just keep on warming, because of greenhouse gas pollution, then we could easily cook those ice sheets more rapidly.

She could cook some soul food. There was nothing like going to her house and eating dinner.