quotations about cooking
I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.
FERRAN ADRIA
The Vancouver Sun, Mar. 4, 2014
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIAL
Epigrams
God sends meat, and the devil sends cooks.
CHARLES VI
attributed, Day's Collacon
If you are not working in a fast food restaurant or bakehouse, the same dish will never turn out in exactly the same way twice.
PHILIP DUNDAS
Cooking Without Recipes
Of all books, the cookbook has done most good for humanity--and the most harm.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.
FERRAN ADRIA
The Vancouver Sun, Mar. 4, 2014
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal was never found.
TRACEY ULLMAN
The Observer, May 23, 1999
If you think well, you cook well.
FERRAN ADRIÀ
book signing, Sep. 29, 2011
Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.
JOHN GREEN
Looking for Alaska
The man who claims he'd rather make love to his wife than eat is probably married to a poor cook.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
CHINESE PROVERB
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.
ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN
Physiologie du Gout
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
HILAIRE BELLOC
A Conversation with a Cat
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
PHYLLIS DILLER
attributed, Make 'em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
Even a miser does not refuse meat to the cook.
EFIK
attributed, Day's Collacon
Drink while you cook. Make it fun.
GWYNETH PALTROW
My Father's Daughter: Delicious
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
JULIA CHILD
New York Times, Nov. 26, 1986
One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends. People who like to cook like to talk about food. Plain old cooks (as opposed to the geniuses in fancy restaurants) tend to be friendly. After all, without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.
LAURIE COLWIN
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from.
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN
interview, Rappler
What we need is a big big cooking pot
Big enough to cook every wonderful
Beautiful, trust worthy, lovely idea we've got
HAPPY MONDAYS
"Harmony"