COOKING QUOTES IV

quotations about cooking

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Many a newlywed cooks just the way her husband had better like it.

EVAN ESAR

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What the modern bride doesn't know would fill a book--a cookbook.

EVAN ESAR

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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

JULIA CHILD

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"Never cook with a wine you wouldn't drink," he said. "Though I guess that presupposes that there is a wine I wouldn't drink."

LEV GROSSMAN

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We may live without poetry, music, and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books--what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope--what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love--what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?

OWEN MEREDITH

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Too many cooks spoil the broth.

CHINESE PROVERB

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I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

ALTON BROWN

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Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

W.C. FIELDS

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You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can’t you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.

FERRAN ADRIA

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Because cooks love the social aspect of food, cooking for one is intrinsically interesting. A good meal is like a present, and it can feel goofy, at best, to give yourself a present. On the other hand, there is something life affirming in taking the trouble to feed yourself well, or even decently. Cooking for yourself allows you to be strange or decadent or both. The chances of liking what you make are high, but if it winds up being disgusting, you can always throw it away and order a pizza; no one else will know. In the end, the experimentation, the impulsiveness, and the invention that such conditions allow for will probably make you a better cook.

JENNI FERRARI-ADLER

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If anything goes wrong at the table, the cook is forever dishonored; he survives not the disgrace; let him welcome death.

VATEL

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It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.

BILL WATTERSON

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There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

FERRAN ADRIÀ

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Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

P.J. O'ROURKE

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Unless you live alone in a cave or hermitage, cooking and eating are social activities: even hermit monks have one communal meal a month. The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

LAURIE COLWIN

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People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

FERRAN ADRIA

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Sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

TERRY PRATCHETT

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A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

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Bambi--see the movie! Eat the cast!

HENRY KELLY

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