Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Pollan

Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

Michael Pollan

One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

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.

John Harington

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

Lela Rose

Do the dishes while you're cooking.

Luke Evans

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

M. F. K. Fisher

cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers ...

Gordon Ramsay

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

Gordon Ramsay

I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish.

Maurice de Vlaminck

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

Julia Child

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

Julia Child

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

Julia Child

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

Julia Child

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

Julia Child

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.

Julia Child

Never apologize for your cooking.

Julia Child

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

Julia Child

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

Chauncey Billups

They live and die with their three-point shot; they got a lot of great three-point shooters. We're just trying to run them off that line -- either go to the rack or shoot mid-range shots. Because we know if they get it cooking from that three-point line, you could give yourself a long night.

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it

Marian Burros

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

Nathan Myhrvold

The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

Joely Fisher

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

Liza Minnelli

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

Mark Morris

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good; the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

Mary-Louise Parker

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

P. J. O'Rourke

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

Masaharu Morimoto

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

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.

Germaine Greer

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.