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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.

We're not best in the world at burritos and tacos. What we're best in the world at is building a people culture, sourcing really great ingredients, cooking according to classic cooking techniques, understanding the corresponding economic model and how to...

Quotes by Steve Ells

We want to make the old fast food model irrelevant. We want to make great ingredients and classic cooking techniques accessible to everybody.

Quotes by Steve Ells

I was always interested in cooking; it was always a hobby of mine.

Quotes by Steve Ells

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.

Quotes by Steve Albini

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let...

Quotes by Stephen Hawking

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

Quotes by Stephen Bayley

I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad.

Quotes by Soundarya

I love cooking fish pies.

Quotes by Sophie Dahl

I like routine, and cooking became a ritual when I was modelling in New York. My life was nomadic, so making supper felt like an announcement that I was home.

Quotes by Sophie Dahl

My mom's cooking was all about comfort, flavor, and plenty of butter. It was so hearty.

Quotes by Sonoya Mizuno

I'm very Italian, so I love cooking for friends. Whether it's Valentine's Day and my boyfriend and girlfriends' boyfriends are away, or someone's in town, or someone had a baby, I cook.

Quotes by Sofia Milos

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

Quotes by Siobhan Fahey

I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing and dream a little about this and that.

Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

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.

Quotes by Sirio Maccioni

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

Quotes by Shah Rukh Khan

I'm working on a cooking show; I'm going to do some of it at Dallas Page's performance center. I'm going to do a cooking show called 'Dude Food,' where I show young guys how to eat good and clean, cheap.

Quotes by Scott Hall

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Quotes by Sarah Zettel

I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines...

Quotes by Sasha Cohen

My appreciation for cooking and healthy living came from watching my best friend die from liver cancer in 2008. I realized that I needed to make some big changes if I wanted to be around for a long time, so...

Quotes by Sara Ramirez

My kitchen is my baby. I don't have kids, so cooking is sort of like my child. Renovating my kitchen has allowed me to channel my creativity the way parents work on a nursery. The centerpiece is my vintage 1950s...

Quotes by Sara Ramirez

Frequently Asked Questions

What different cooking-related memories and views appear here?
This mix covers being pushed to help with cooking and chores growing up, a personal view about the time women spend cooking or getting ready, a wish to open a restaurant serving Parsi cooking, and a memory of cooking alongside future celebrity chefs.
Is there a quote about being pushed to help with cooking and chores growing up?
Yes: "My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school."
Does a quote mention wanting to open a restaurant serving Parsi cooking?
Yes: "I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere."
Is there a quote about cooking alongside future celebrity chefs?
Yes: "When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood."
Where can I find more quotes about food and home?
For more, see our Food and Home quotes pages.

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