646 Quotes About Cooking

This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.

When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie,' which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

I am more of an herb guy than a spice guy. It comes back to a certain conservatism I have regarding food. The French are not big on spices; they use more herbs. I know the spices used in European cooking and use them in moderation. I am not going to serve a dish that is wildly nutmegged!" David Waltuck, Chanterelle NYC

When I got home I peered down at the lobster to see how he was doing. The inner plastic bag was sucked tight around him and clouded up. It looked like something out of an eighties made-for-TV movie, with some washed-up actress taking too many pills and trying to off herself with a Macy's bag.

The social joys of making a meal with friends are known to all who have done so/

‪Cooking is so infinitely nuanced that to write completely about how to cook any dish would require a manuscript longer than a David Foster Wallace novel and include twice as many footnotes within twice as many endnotes. And then no one would be able to follow it, let alone cook from it.

I loved to cook, so I cooked. And then the cooking became a way of saying I love you. And then the cooking became the easy way of saying I love you. And then the cooking became the only way of saying I love you.

If Mrs. Elliott chose to work off her upset by indulging in an orgy of baking, it was fine with me.

Pada dasarnya margarin dan mentega bisa saling menggantikan, karena kedua bahan ini sekilas penampakan (((penampakan))) -nya pun serupa, sama-sama berwarna kekuningan meskipun pada mentega warna kuningnya cenderung lebih pucat ketimbang pada margarin, tapi tentu saja tidak sama persis.