646 Quotes About Cooking

There is no culture where everyone cooks in the same way.

How old does a recipe have to be in order to be traditional? What should we think when an old industrial food like salted (corned) beef or pickled herring becomes a part of “traditional” ethnic cuisine?

She quickly jumped back in with her favorite part of cooking, the smells that would infuse the restaurant from open to close. Nutty olive oil , zesty herbs, briny oysters, lusty chocolate, pungent cheese, crisp greens, fresh citrus, bracing vinegar.

Mmm,” she mumbled against him. “If I knew that was going to happen, I’d have brought over a recipe booklet on the first week.”“Well, it’s not every day a woman has me make her dinner.

If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.

Once again, there was a terrorist attack inside my mouth.

Life isn’t life without real butter.

Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.