646 Quotes About Cooking

I thought we were going to take a 20-mule team out to the Grand Canyon and get a Bunsen burner and a bow and arrow, and whatever you can catch you cook. And it’s gotta be gourmet and it better look good.

Anyone can cook, but the true talent belongs to those who are capable of gently ensnaring with their delicacies, winning compliance with the mere suggestion that there might not be any goodies for a caller who persisted in prying.

In the Army, the drill sergeants said, "Eat it now and taste it later.

Every meal should be a small celebration

No one is too busy to cook.

Given that we all bring such different food memories to the table, how is it ever possible to cook a meal that will please everyone?

Chefs are cooking blind, for strangers whose memories are unknown.

Mindfulness shifts our thinking so that a simple meal transforms into a gift for all sentient beings.

This is a celebration of cuts of meat, innards, and extremities that are more often forgotten or discarded in today’s kitchen; it would seem disingenuous to the animal not to make the most of the whole beast: there is a set of delights, textural and flavorsome, which lie beyond the fillet.