Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.

I love quinoa. It's great, it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

Donatella Versace

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

Adam Gopnik

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Abigail Breslin

I really like to cook.

Sara Ramirez

I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.

Melissa Rosenberg

Well, I think one of the problems with 'Birds of Prey' was there were too many cooks in that kitchen. The studio, the producers, the network, all had very different visions of what that should be. They should have just let Laeta Kalogridis control that. Instead they decided to try to get their hands in the mix.

Brunello Cucinelli

I like to have cookies in the morning before I go swimming.

Leo Buscaglia

Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Wolfgang Puck

It's very important in a restaurant to really do the right hiring because there's no restaurant that you have one cook and one chef and nobody else in the kitchen. Generally you have five, ten, 15 people with you. So that's really important is to train them right, but first you have to hire the right people.

John Williams

People will learn things like emergency first aid, how to cook with no power and how to find shelter in an emergency.

John Betjeman

Phone for the fish-knives, Norman, / As Cook is a little unnerved; / You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes / And I must have things daintily served.

Pork has a lot going for it: It cooks up quickly, it's a good source of protein and it's relatively low in calories.

Nobody knows how many years Native Americans made maple sugar before teaching to the white man. Everyone's got their little theories. The story I heard was there was a day when the sap was running and some fell into the cook pot.

One of the major problems is to make sure that the meat is thoroughly cooked because you can have the pathogenic E. coli bacteria,

Kate Christensen

My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.

Andy Williams

No cookie . . . not now . . . not ever . . . never !

no cookbook recipes for deciding where the cycle stands.

One person is thin porridge or gruel; two or three people are a handful of stiff cooked corn meal. - Kuria, Kenya/Tanzania and Ngoreme, Tanzania

One flush of today's Western toilet would provide enough water for washing, cooking and eating for one person in a developing country.

No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, very sexy - but they don't like to cook.

John Key

Sunday night I always cook if I can - if I'm home, I always cook.

Jamie Oliver

It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.

But what you can't do is be selling kids cookies at 10 o'clock in the morning so that they're not hungry at lunch.

Carmen Ejogo

I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

Merry Clayton

My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.

Jojo Moyes

My go-to winter recipe is beef and butternut squash stew, cooked in the slow oven all day.

Aaron Sanchez

My family, we are three generations of cookbook writers,

Fresh fruits are so untainted. We don't process them, cook them or package them. There are some fruits out there that are packed with natural energy that kids like, like kiwi fruit, ... Kiwis are part of the super fruit category. One kiwi has all the vitamin C you need for the day.

Alicia Coppola

I eat very well. I cook for my family every night. We eat a variety of things, including chicken, fish, pork, lentils, all veggies, pastas, and salads. You name it, we eat it - except salmon, which I find disgusting. Sorry, salmon.

I love cooking and I have really enjoyed my job.