Cooking Quotes
On family kitchens, music, and the craft of cooking.
These quotes cover cooking as both chore and craft—lessons learned young at home, music that makes the task lighter, and the dream of running a restaurant serving a specific regional cuisine. See our family quotes for more.
The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle...
I would say that molecular gastronomy is a field of science. I would - I would say that it's probably lumped under chemistry, maybe. Because cooking, while it has certainly biology and some physics, it's mostly chemistry.
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It wasn't the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges.
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If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.
My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I...
I didn't know music either, but I became a composer. Acting too is like that. It's like cooking for your siblings when your mother is away. You have a responsibility and you try to do a good job.
If I walked into a restaurant, the other diners would look around and say, 'I hope you're not cooking.'
My favourite thing is cooking for my friends. There are 13 of us who all met at university. They come round once a week, and I make a huge lasagne.
I don't like cooking and don't cook until I am forced to. Then I expect everyone around to appreciate what I dish out.
