Cooking Quotes - Page 20

• I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and Im a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Nice, Italian, Bangs

  "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.

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• I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

  Grant Achatz

  New York, Wish, Food Trucks

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• It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

  Grant Achatz

  Levels, Push Yourself, Hard

  Interview with Joanne Camas, www.epicurious.com.

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• In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

  Eric Ripert

  Moving, Ideas, Kitchen

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

  Akshay Kumar

  Imagination, Sticks, Rely

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• Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Fire, Boston, Order

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.

  Willard Scott

  Mother, People, Kitchen

  Willard Scott (2005). “If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First”, Hyperion

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

  David Chang

  Reading, Math, Discipline

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• I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

  Nadine Velazquez

  Husband, Hot, Arms

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• I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Horse, House, Able

  "Designer Q&A: LisaRaye on PZI Jeans". Interview with Elliana Placas, www.essence.com. October 4, 2011.

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

  Alice Waters

  Dieting, More Time, Disconnected

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• As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

  Leon Krier

  Love Life, Creativity, Things In Life

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.24, Papadakis Publisher

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• Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesnt mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now youre cooking.

  Tom Colicchio

  Home, Mean, Trying

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• I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

  Daniel Boulud

  Real, Inspiration, Years

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

  Michael Pollan

  Calories, Ifs

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• One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Skills, California, Students

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• Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Writing

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• The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Creativity, Roots, People

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• I've always been one of those people who romanticized cooking, but the few attempts I'd made in my life resulted in friends' contorted faces as they desperately tried to say something nice about the "dish" they were eating.

  Drew Barrymore

  Nice, People, Faces

  "Drew Barrymore on her new gig, motherhood, and Adam Sandler". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2014.

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• Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show.

  Drew Barrymore

  Kitchen, Recipes, Matter

  "Drew Barrymore on her new gig, motherhood, and Adam Sandler". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2014.

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• There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.

  Kimberly Schlapman

  Grandmother, Pie, Southern

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. And the way African men treat African women is total unacceptable.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Kids, Men, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I always get so excited cooking chicken wings.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Wings, Excited, Chickens

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• I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Mum

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• In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.

  Toshiko Takaezu

  Vegetables, Differences, Giving

  Toshiko Takaezu, Felice Fischer, Darrel Sewell (2004). “The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu”, ACC Distribution

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