Cooking Quotes - Page 5

• I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

  Julia Child

  Love, Valentines Day, Nice

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• The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Grandma, Italian

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• I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Funny Alcohol, Sometimes

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• Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

  L. M. Boyd

  Love, Sex, Food

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• News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

  Rose Macaulay

  Food, Culture, News

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• I think careful cooking is love, don't you?

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Cooking And Love, Careful

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

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Too Much, Enlightening

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• I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

  James Beard

  Food, Home Cooking, Gourmet

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• Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell

  Home Cooking, Kitchen, Onions

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• To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oil, Salad

  1880 Vera, or The Nihilists, act 2.

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• They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.

  Stefanie Powers

  Kissing, Guy, Sparks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

  Prince William

  Work, Lazy, Want

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• I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done.

  Devon Werkheiser

  Mean, Past, Water

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• A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

  James Beard

  Drinking, Food, Thinking

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• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  Ted Allen

  Asian, Noodles, Cooks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

  Todd English

  Sports, Food, Kitchen

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• This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

  Julia Child

  Fun, Mistake, Food

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.261, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Strong, Skills, Personality

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

  John Haines

  Dream, Food, Yellow

  John Haines (1996). “The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems”

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• One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Eating Good

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• Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Food, Humor

  Without Feathers "Selections from the Allen Notebooks" (1975)

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• Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Pork, Certain

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• Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Passion, Eye, Naked

  "Interview with Gordon Ramsay About Masterchef". Interview with Brett Moore, www.thespruce.com. November 17, 2016.

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• I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.

  Betty White

  Dog, Kitchen

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

  Steven Wright

  Food, Humor, Use

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