Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liang Chow

In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

Leon Bridges

I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.

Leon Bridges

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

Sara Ramirez

I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.

Adam Gopnik

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Bonnie Raitt

I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.

Charles Hazlewood

I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.

Frida Gustavsson

I'm obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash.

Cate Blanchett

I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.

We are not going to pursue the cookie or the fruit this year.

Lilla Crawford

At my school, they have an ice cream special sometimes, and they have this ice cream sandwich, except the sandwich part is like an Oreo and the inside like cookies n' cream ice cream. I love that.

When I first saw the idea of a cooking school for kids, I thought it was a pretty neat idea. I like the fact that it teaches something and is not just about making cookies.

We need food parcels that do not require cooking, it's impossible to cook in an environment where its still flooded.

Paula Creamer

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.

Cara Buono

My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.

Mike Vogel

My wife is a terrific Southern cook. My favorite of all the great things she cooks is 'trash potatoes.' That's mashed potatoes with sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, and horseradish. It's a total gut bomb.

My wife is a good cook and she says to me the eyes want their part. What you see must be exciting and inviting.

Tobey Maguire

My mom wanted to be an actress, so she figured her son could be one for her. She said she'd give me $100 to take drama instead of home ec-I wanted to be a cook like my pops.

My mom worked and I cooked for love.

Long before he benched Ramsey and went back to Brunell on Monday, Gibbs handled the quarterback situation with about as much aplomb as a fast-food shift manager firing a fry cook on the spot.

Imelda Staunton

I seem to be doing all my own cooking and shopping and washing.

Mario Batali

It is important to get the zucchini crisp when you cook it; the trick is to move it very little when it first goes into the pan and to work in small batches.

James Martin

I was working as a laundryman in New Orleans, but I also know how to cook and how to operate a forklift. What I can't do, I'll learn.

John Salley

I went into raw vegan for a while, but I prefer cooked food, the way it smells, the way it feels going through your system.

People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction.

Wally Amos

I always wanted to have another cookie store, ... So 30 years later, we have another cookie store.

I am getting e-mails from home cooks who are happy to have a place to learn more about seasonal foods. They tell me it has been a goal but they didn't know where to look.

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.

Alafair Burke

Hmmm... cooking with wine? I usually drink wine while cooking... I do a good braised short ribs with cabernet, though. We're big red wine drinkers here. All that research showing that it's good for you takes the guilt away.

Sally Schneider

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

Michael Symon

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Alice Waters

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

The cookie all crumbled at one time for us. We had all the questions about our coach, we lost three games in a row and we were trying to figure out what was going on with our season.