quotations about cooking
I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.
FERRAN ADRIA
The Vancouver Sun, Mar. 4, 2014
Of all books, the cookbook has done most good for humanity--and the most harm.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
HILAIRE BELLOC
A Conversation with a Cat
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
Whoever heard of a man getting a divorce from a woman who was a good cook?
KIN HUBBARD
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
If you think well, you cook well.
FERRAN ADRIÀ
book signing, Sep. 29, 2011
'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat.
What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook?
How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser,
And serve it thus to me that love it not?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Taming of the Shrew
If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.
TOM JAINE
London Daily Telegraph, Oct. 19, 1989
I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.
SONIA RUMZI
Simple Conversation
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
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
God sends meat, and the devil sends cooks.
CHARLES VI
attributed, Day's Collacon
Cooking is revelation and creation; and a woman can find special satisfaction in a successful cake or a flaky pastry, for not every one can do it: one must have the gift.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Second Sex
Good cooking tempts the appetite.
RABBI ADA
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
Lucile
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"
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