Cooking Quotes

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.

~ Michael Pollan

The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast chicken. I love making Hungarian goulash. There are a lot of egg noodles in my cooking.

~ Judy Gold

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

~ Julia Child

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

~ Andy Rooney

Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.

~ Inbee Park

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

~ Alma Guillermoprieto

When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook healthy. The reason I started cooking was because I would go to restaurants and have just amazing food but feel so heavy and gross. I would go home and try to cook the same thing, but a healthy version.

~ Brenda Song

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

~ Gail Sheehy

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

~ Maurice De Vlaminck

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

~ Gerard Depardieu

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

~ Jacques Pepin

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.

~ Antony Gormley

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.

~ Vivienne Westwood

I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the corporations who want to cook for us. The fact is, so far, corporations don't cook that well. They tend to use too much salt, fat, and sugar - much more than you would ever use at home.

~ Michael Pollan

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

~ Julia Child

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

~ Lao Tzu

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

~ Dolly Parton

I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.

~ Blake Lively

I do not like people touching my underwear. That's just weird! I travel with a washer and dryer, and I like cooking on the bus, too.

~ Carrie Underwood

I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking - a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for steel-cut oats. I travel with a small rice cooker. I soak oats overnight, and when I get up, I just turn the rice cooker on, and it cooks the oats perfectly every time.

~ John Mackey

I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.

~ Alain Ducasse

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

~ Trishelle Cannatella

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

~ Phyllis Diller

I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.

~ Wylie Dufresne

It wasn't the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges.

~ Wylie Dufresne

I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.

~ Chandra Wilson

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.

~ Cheryl Hines

I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.

~ Joshua Cohen

Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'

~ Pamela Meyer

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

~ David Chang

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

~ Hillary Clinton

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

~ Christian Louboutin

I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

~ Aaron Taylor-Johnson

I am so longing to be domestic cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

~ Eve Best

I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.

~ Dennis Basso

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

~ Ron Ben-Israel

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

~ Akshay Kumar

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

~ Guy Fieri

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

~ Jennifer Garner