Cooks Quotes - Page 31

• I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

  Steve Albini

  Cooking, Kind, Bothered

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• I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

  Steve Albini

  Mom, Growing Up, Italian

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• New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

  Steve Albini

  New York, Home, Eating

  "Talking to Shellac About Music, Food, and Poker". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. October 07, 2011.

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• I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mother, Believe, Energy

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• Im trying to learn how to cook.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Trying

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• For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Artist, Gourmet

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1844, Delphi Classics

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• I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

  Malcolm X

  White, Massachusetts, Maids

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• I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  People

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• There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Women, Home, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.

  Steven Moffat

  Dark, Men, Fire

  "Inferno". m.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

  Kajol

  Kitchen, Affair, Pot

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• I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

  Barry Goldwater

  Home, Men, Long

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• However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

  Ted Allen

  Home, Long, Chicago

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

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• I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.

  Ted Allen

  Beautiful, Trying, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

  Bernard Malamud

  Giving, Misery, Blame

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.

  Luke Perry

  House, Four, Stuff

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• I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

  Calvin Trillin

  Restaurants, Knows

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• I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

  Peter Brook

  Looks, Cauldrons, Restaurants

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• Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or sew, or cook... The Worm can crawl But has no eyes to look. The Jelly-fish can swim But lacks a bride.

  Julian Huxley

  Book, Eye, Pride

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• I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.

  Willie Dixon

  Sadness, Blue, Making Love

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• I like to cook things very slowly.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

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• I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

  Shalom Harlow

  Home, Meals, Ugh

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• For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn’t get, but that’s not the case anymore.

  Michael Symon

  Home, Able, Chef

  "Chef Michael Symon shares tips to cook like a pro". Interview with Richard Leong, www.reuters.com. July 27, 2010.

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• My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

  Michael Symon

  Home, Goal, Great Food

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• I do love a man who can cook.

  Emma Bunton

  Men

  "Interview: Emma Bunton". www.askmen.com.

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