Famous Quotes & Sayings

Delia Smith

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight

Alton Brown

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

Anne Burrell

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

Ann-Margret

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

Douglas Coupland

Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

That's very rewarding because it something less they have to think about and who they are cooking for.

Emeril Lagasse

I was a whiz kid at music, and cooking was more of a challenge. I eventually went to culinary school, Johnson & Wales.

Alfred Hitchcock

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

Anthony Bourdain

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

One flush of today's Western toilet would provide enough water for washing, cooking and eating for one person in a developing country.

No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, very sexy - but they don't like to cook.

Dom DeLuise

I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel

Brian Eno

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

Dan Castellaneta

Marge, it's 3 AM. Shouldn't you be cooking or something?

Ruth Reichl

The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.

Ruth Reichl

For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

It sort of feels like the better-paid employees are not eating the same cooking that the shareholders are.

It smells good, just like the cooking oil.

It smells a lot like you're cooking something,

Follow-up is vital, ... The proof of the pudding will be in the cooking and the eating.

Chris Jones

I like assembling sandwiches, and I like cooking a steak perfectly. We make sure it all goes on right.

Chauncey Billups

They live and die with their three-point shot; they got a lot of great three-point shooters. We're just trying to run them off that line -- either go to the rack or shoot mid-range shots. Because we know if they get it cooking from that three-point line, you could give yourself a long night.

It took a man to help us understand cooking is not a woman's drudgery. It took a man to show us that it could be fulfilling and wonderful.

Clement Freud

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

E. V. Lucas

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

Gurinder Chadha

I was a good Indian girl, but naughty in that I would often sneak out of the back door and into the garden and go off with my friends when I should have been at home cooking or cleaning.

Alice Waters

When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

Cindy Morgan

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

David Chang

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

Twenty years ago I was cooking in Las Vegas.

Cassandra Clare

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Eva Herzigova

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.