646 Quotes About Cooking

Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it.

This book is about street-level cooking and its practitioners. Line cooks are the heroes.

What most people don't get about professional-level cooking is that it is not all about the best recipe, the most innovative presentation, the most creative marriage of ingredients, flavours and textures; that, presumably, was all arranged long before you sat down to dinner. Line cooking - the real business of preparing the food you eat - is more about consistency, about mindless, unvarying repetition, the same series of tasks performed over and over and over again in exactly the same way.

As a cook, your station, and its condition, its state of readiness, is an extension of your nervous system - and it is profoundly upsetting if another cook or, God forbid, a waiter - disturbs your precisely and carefully laid-out system.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child

My favorite hobby is cooking and eating. There is nothing i can do well if i have not eaten well.

This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.