COOKING QUOTES IV

quotations about cooking

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

W.C. FIELDS

attributed, Chicken Soup for the Wine Lover's Soul


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

BILL WATTERSON

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes


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


The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

JULIA CHILD

attributed, Recipes from Historic New England


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

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


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

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


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


If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.

RACHEL RAY

QVC Quisine eNewsletter


Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Summer Crossing


The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

ALEXANDER POPE

Imitations of Horace


There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

MARY FRANCES KENNEDY FISHER

Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher


There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

MARIO BATALI

Humanities, 2004


To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

EMILY POST

Etiquette


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


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"


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

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides


Bambi--see the movie! Eat the cast!

HENRY KELLY

Daily Telegraph, Feb. 26, 1994


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

JULIA CHILD

New York Times, Nov. 26, 1986


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