646 Quotes About Cooking

Sirine finishes deskewering six plates of lamb shish kabobs and three plates of chicken, drizzling oil over ground beef and hummus, over smoky puréed eggplant, over a bowl of olives, and splashing four tabbouleh salads with lemon.

There are so many slight things she can distinguish between her senses: she can smell the difference between lavender and clover honeys; she can feel the softening progression of ripeness in a pear; and she can sense how much heat is rising in a panful of gravy, lentils, garlic.

You could make anything boring, Mimi! You're like a magic wand of boring!""Well, you're like a magic wand of bad breath!""I get bad breath because I eat what you cook!

But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it. It's all here: the good, the bad and the ugly.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all

if I put something in the oven before it had come to temperature, or if I got the steam going before I had everything chopped, that sort of triviality (or so I thought) was precisely reflected in the color and shape of the final product.

Loves Me, Loves Me Not: We're playing together in the karmic kitchen: cooking up our futures, testing life's recipes, seeing what we like and don't...

What's next?" he asked."We need to grind some pepper." I pushed the mortar toward him, then poured a generous handful of peppercorns into the stone basin."And silphium?"I gave him a genuine smile then. Silphium was a precious herb I used in many of my dishes, but in recent years it had become quite scarce and costly. It had a taste that was reminiscent of leeks, garlic, and fennel, but smoother and more aromatic. It was one of Apicius's flavors."Definitely silphium.

Not knowing how to cook is like not knowing how to fuck.