646 Quotes About Cooking

People who know fresh cod - from the great restaurants of France, to British working-class fish shops, to the St. John's waterfront - all agree on three things: It should be cooked quickly and gently, it should be prepared simply, and, above all, it must be a thick piece. Only a large piece can be properly cooked.

Nowadays, a low carb diet is a new fashion trend because people are not doing much physical exercise.

The cheese I understand... but Chirimen Jako dried baby sardines?!And now he's mixing them with the potatoes and cheese to brown in a skillet? I'm completely lost!""But you know... the salty aroma of the sardines does go well with the cheese...

…those doughnuts are a lot better than having a mule kick you in the head,"There was no argument there.

You can't make a mistake with trifle.

I could, like some of the meat we were cooking, relax into it, clear my mind of competing desires & give myself over to the work... This time became a kind of luxury. And that is precisely when I began to truly enjoy the work of cooking.

Her reputation as a cook spread without her knowledge- for the soups she brought to the bakery in a lidded tin for her midday meal, for her stews, for the scraps of dough that she turned into what the Russians called pelmeni and the Jews kreplach, dumplings stuffed with chopped meat and onions. She prepared hot borscht with beef in winter, shchi or cold borscht in summer, chicken cooked with prunes or a tsimmes with sweet potatoes, carrots and prunes.

From a mathematical perspective, every oscillation could be used to tell time. In the real world, only a few are good enough. Most are too noisy, or show different periods when external conditions are slightly varied. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shows oscillations, but you would not want to time an egg with them.

Our lives aren't meant to be fast and functional, like my weekday life had become. Our lives were created to be vibrant--enriched with the foods that make us feel like we’re truly living, to the very fullest.