Cooks Quotes - Page 32

• If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Children, Thinking, People

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• It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Smart, People, Like You

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• Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they're not intimidated by them. If I'm doing 'Boy Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.

  Bobby Flay

  Home, Successful, Boys

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• I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.

  Carrot Top

  Lunch, Cooking, Needs

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• 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

  Sweet, Home, Pie

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

  Patrick Duffy

  Love Is, Rivers, Cooking

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• I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

  Morena Baccarin

  Party, Italian, Avid

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

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• I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Cooking, Brain, Rooms

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• I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.

  Alton Brown

  Home, Circles, People

  "13 Questions With Alton Brown". Interview with "AskMen" Editors, www.askmen.com.

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• After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going against Bobby Flay takes the challenge to another level, but I'm ready to whip these contestants into shape and the winner is sure to be from Team Burrell.

  Anne Burrell

  Team, Two, America

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• I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

  Mario Batali

  Party, Believe, Ties

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• I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

  Billy Childish

  Jobs, Sunday, Dinner

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• The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.

  Cat Cora

  Home, Kids, Years

  "Chef Cat Cora says "Bon Appetit" at Sundance". Interview with Jane Clark, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

  Nikki Cox

  Useless

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• I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

  Tom Conti

  Home, Italian, Past

  "This much I know: Tom Conti". Interview With Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  Vince Cable

  Men, Thinking, Pie

  "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.

  Jenna Dewan

  Trying, Clean, Hard

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

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• In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

  Kiran Desai

  Dog, Important, India

  "Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity". Interview with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. April 21, 2007.

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• Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

  Paula Deen

  Long, Cooking, Grit

  Paula Deen (2011). “Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More Than 300 Recipes”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.

  Paula Deen

  Mess, Disorganized, Knows

  "Hey, Y'all, I Need Some Help!". www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Song, Beach, Husband

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• I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

  Paula Fox

  Purpose, Combination

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• First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

  Tyler Florence

  Jobs, Past, California

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• Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.

  Tyler Florence

  Space, Mushrooms, Feet

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• Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.

  Tyler Florence

  Memories, Kids, Thinking

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