646 Quotes About Cooking

...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food.

Even if they aren't cooking or using the products very often, very wealthy people want to have the top-of-the-line of everything. It is a symbol of their status and a reward for their hard work.

I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded.

I've discovered a lot more of the world. My seasonings are sold in 35 countries. I've been to them all, and I take cooking lessons wherever we go.

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. When I opened Spago, I had the kitchen in the dining hall. It was probably the first restaurant to do so. The dining scene became more casual. All these cooking shows have transformed our profession one-hundred percent.

The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.

Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!

Do the dishes while you're cooking.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.