COOKING QUOTES IV

quotations about cooking

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

ALEXANDER POPE

Imitations of Horace


Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

NORA EPHRON

Heartburn


A good cook has great power to assuage grief by his art.

MOUCHY

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

The Fifth Elephant


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

W.C. FIELDS

attributed, Chicken Soup for the Wine Lover's Soul


"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

The Magicians


The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

LAURIE COLWIN

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen


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

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen


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

interview, Toronto Life, Mar. 13, 2014


When people think science and cooking, they have no idea that it's not correctly expressed. We're actually applying the scientific method. People think chemistry and physics are science, but the scientific method is something else.... It's the science that the world of cooking generates: science of butter; science of the croissant.

FERRAN ADRIA

interview, Toronto Life, Mar. 13, 2014


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

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant


No one here will be surprised to hear me say that the Promethean fire which first raised humanity above the animal was the cooking fire.

BRIAN STABLEFORD

The Last Supper


Just remember--it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.

JAMES BEARD

The Best of Beard: Great Recipes from a Great Cook


I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.

JAROD KINTZ

Who Moved My Choose?


Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

PHYLLIS DILLER

The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes


It is the art of cooking that makes the distinction of man and the lower animals; and a good cook who has a thorough knowledge of his art, should be entirely devoted to the gratification of taste, and the preservation of health.

M. UDE

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back.

NALINI SINGH

Branded by Fire


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

BILL WATTERSON

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes