646 Quotes About Cooking

I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea.

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

I have a lot of time for vegetarians (though apparently not all of them have a lot of time for me), and that's because I respect anyone with principles about food.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's happening on screen.

If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for.

Bought marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.

When a couple came to class together, it meant something else entirely - food as a solution, a diversion, or, occasionally, a playground.

Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extravagant, the extreme, the grotesque, the bizarre, then one's diet should reflect the fact. Life, meals, everything must be as artificial as possible - in fact works of art. So why not begin by eating a few statues?