Cooking Quotes - Page 35

• I'm either at the movie theater, or I'm at home cooking - well, not really cooking because I don't cook, I usually have friends over who can cook, and they do the cooking. I'm sort of a homebody, even though I love going out to dinner and I love going to the movies. Those are my favorite things to do on a night off.

  Kate Mara

  Home, Night, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any one of TV shows takes twice as long to watch as that, which I think is very interesting because the main excuse people give for not cooking is they don't have time to cook, but somehow they're finding time to watch other people cook or eat on TV.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Michael Pollan On Cooking As A Spectator Sport". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. August 3, 2009.

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• I put my children first, but I always keep my obligations or my commitments. You really have to do some internal work to know yourself, know what you're capable of. See how many meetings you can take a day or how much work you can get through in a day. Give it lots of proper time and respect, but also give yourself the respect of having your downtime, whether that means yoga, pilates, a meditation class, or a cooking class.

  Rachel Roy

  Children, Yoga, Mean

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Italy itself has 21 different micro-regions. You go within each of those regions, there's even super-micro-regions; and the beauty is that when you go from place to place, although there's a common thread of pasta and joie de vivre - in the way that they approach their meals and the simplicity of cooking, celebrating more the product than the chef - there's still so much variety that as you go, it's always an exciting moment.

  Mario Batali

  Simplicity, Different, Common

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If our public school system is a truly democratic institution. It's the place where we can reach every child in this county from kindergarten. What an opportunity to edibly educate them. I don't just mean a glorified cooking class. I've never thought of it that way. I have always thought of it as a way to empower students to learn, to give them confidence, and to nourish them. So, I think the centerpiece has to be a free, sustainable school lunch for every child.

  Alice Waters

  Children, School, Mean

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people really might starve. In America, my Jordanian father spent decades cooking professionally and pursuing his dream of a restaurant, and it was one of the central ways that he explained himself to his American children. Even though he's a passionate talker, he has a hell of a time with listening. His cooking gave him a way of having a conversation - which was a really interesting thing for a writer to look at.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Dream, Children, Father

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do a lot of cooking. I've always cooked for my family and my father and I cooked together. It's just one of the things I like to do. If you came around my house for dinner, you'd watch me cook as we sat around the kitchen and cooked and talked. For me, that's centralised... friendship and family around food and cooking.

  Brad Lewis

  Father, House, Kitchen

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• I have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really hard to find people who are not fame-whores. We're lucky these people actually wanted to spend their time doing this. All of them would have much rather been cooking without the cameras, being with their families. That's why they're great characters.

  Mo Rocca

  Character, People, Grandparent

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• It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Food, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.422, Pan Macmillan

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• I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Rain, Food

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

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• It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

  Ted Allen

  Talking, Guests, Chef

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

  W. H. Auden

  Food, Murder, Culinary

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• I would love to go on MasterChef. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

  Ed Balls

  Goes On, Want, Pay

  "Ed Balls: Yorkshire beef and Westminster lasagne parties". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

  Dave Barry

  Trust, Food, Lakes

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• I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

  John Barrymore

  Good Morning, Food, Giving

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• I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

  Lance Bass

  Parent, Special, Recipes

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• Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Food, Men, Two

  "Baudelaire as a literary critic".

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• I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

  James Beard

  Believe, Food, Adversity

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  Jack Benny

  Food, Cutting, Ham

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• Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

  Milton Berle

  Food, Order, White

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• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  Wendell Berry

  Food, Red Lipstick, Dew

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Farming: A Hand Book”, p.49, Counterpoint Press

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• I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

  George Best

  Drinking, Food, Beer

  "Beating Them at Their Own Game: How the Irish Conquered English Soccer". Book by Patrick West, 2006.

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• Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Bread, Sides

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Madness, Culinary

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.41, See Sharp Press

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• Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Science, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

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