Top Cooking Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Cooking quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of James Beard
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.
- James Beard
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Image of Juana Inés de la Cruz
One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.
- Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Image of Michael Pollan
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.
- Michael Pollan
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Image of Delia Smith
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight
- Delia Smith
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Image of Kirby Larson
It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
- Kirby Larson
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Image of Eric Ripert
Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.
- Eric Ripert
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Image of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Image of Harriet Beecher Stowe
The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Image of Julia Child
The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.
- Julia Child
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Image of Julia Child
Eating is the secret to good cooking.
- Julia Child
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Image of Marion Jones
I like cooking - I make a good stir-fry and the family likes it when I make stewed chicken and macaroni and cheese.
- Marion Jones
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Image of Anna Thomas
Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.
- Anna Thomas
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Image of John Harington
When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
- John Harington
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Image of Leslie White
We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.
- Leslie White
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Image of Fernand Point
In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.
- Fernand Point
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Image of Fernand Point
Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.
- Fernand Point
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Image of Ferran Adria
I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.
- Ferran Adria
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Image of Ferran Adria
There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.
- Ferran Adria
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Image of Ferran Adria
You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.
- Ferran Adria
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Image of Margaret Visser
Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.
- Margaret Visser
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Image of Curnonsky
Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are
- Curnonsky
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Image of Peter Facinelli
Sometimes while you're cooking it's messy but the outcome is good. The end result is all that counts.
- Peter Facinelli
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Image of Irma S. Rombauer
Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!
- Irma S. Rombauer
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Image of Irma S. Rombauer
The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.
- Irma S. Rombauer
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Image of Marcel Boulestin
Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.
- Marcel Boulestin
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Image of Marcel Boulestin
A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.
- Marcel Boulestin
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Image of Anne Truitt
I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.
- Anne Truitt
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Image of Zero Mostel
Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler
- Zero Mostel
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Image of Marie-Antoine Careme
Beef is the soul of cooking.
- Marie-Antoine Careme
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Image of Lizabeth Scott
Cooking is a great way to get back in touch with things that brought us comfort.
- Lizabeth Scott
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Image of Marcella Hazan
[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.
- Marcella Hazan
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Image of Catherine Keener
You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.
- Catherine Keener
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Image of Ann-Margret
For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.
- Ann-Margret
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Image of Natalie Coughlin
Cooking a fantastic meal is therapeutic. I like the entire process-the chopping, the stirring. At the end, hopefully you get to enjoy a great meal with a friend or loved one.
- Natalie Coughlin
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Image of Auguste Escoffier
Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.
- Auguste Escoffier
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Image of Rebecca Wells
Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you.
- Rebecca Wells
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Image of John Smith
Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!
- John Smith
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Image of David Myers
My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.
- David Myers
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Image of Geoffrey Zakarian
I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from.
- Geoffrey Zakarian
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Image of Caleb Followill
I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.
- Caleb Followill
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Image of Bobby Flay
Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.
- Bobby Flay
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Image of Dom DeLuise
I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel
- Dom DeLuise
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Image of Virginia Hamilton
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written. It is the feeling early humans must have experienced when the firelight first overcame the darkness of the cave. It is the communal cooking pot, the Street, all over again. It is our need to know we are not alone.
- Virginia Hamilton
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Image of David Liederman
Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.
- David Liederman
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Image of Jose Andres
Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.
- Jose Andres
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Image of Lela Rose
Do the dishes while you're cooking.
- Lela Rose
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Image of Jens Voigt
While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.
- Jens Voigt
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Image of Fergus Henderson
Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.
- Fergus Henderson
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Image of Dorie Greenspan
Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.
- Dorie Greenspan
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Image of Jonathan Gold
Everybody talks about the internet being the ultimate repository of cooking knowledge. But it's not. It sucks.
- Jonathan Gold
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