Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dom DeLuise

I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel

So far we haven't grown enough to sell or really cook with yet, though.

She taught him to cook from her chair. And he learned to cook pretty well.

O. Henry

She was the one. My grandmother taught my mom and the rest of us how to cook everything that we serve here.

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

Nana Mouskouri

The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

Bonnie Raitt

I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.

Charles Hazlewood

I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.

Frida Gustavsson

I'm obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash.

Cate Blanchett

I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.

Liang Chow

In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

Leon Bridges

I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.

Leon Bridges

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

Yves Rossy

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

Ashton Shepherd

I'll get depressed out on the road simply because I'm not being the mama that's cooking supper every night, or that's fixing my husband's plate and my baby's plate. You miss those things, and I miss them.

Alice Waters

If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

Trisha Yearwood

And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.

Tristram Stuart

We domesticated pigs to turn food waste back into food. And yet, in Europe, that practice has become illegal since 2001 as a result of the foot-and-mouth outbreak. It's unscientific. It's unnecessary. If you cook food for pigs, just as if you cook food for humans, it is rendered safe. It's also a massive saving of resources.

We are not going to pursue the cookie or the fruit this year.

Lilla Crawford

At my school, they have an ice cream special sometimes, and they have this ice cream sandwich, except the sandwich part is like an Oreo and the inside like cookies n' cream ice cream. I love that.

Nikki Reed

This may sound surprising for someone who works in Hollywood, but I do not count calories, and I don't even care about weight gain, which I know sounds really bizarre. I listen to my body. I don't just wake up in the morning and cook whatever I eat.

Coolio

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

Alicia Silverstone

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

Bill Rancic

I cook a great fish, a great salmon. I grill it, get the skin nice and crispy.

Curtis Stone

I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people's kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget.

Blake Shelton

I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat.

We?re not there yet. But ... what kind of cookies do you like, and are you willing to pay $10 a dozen for them?

Yael Naim

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

Yotam Ottolenghi

New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.

Timothy Noah

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

Yotam Ottolenghi

My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.