Cooking Quotations | Page 5

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

We use all fresh, never frozen ingredients. We use classic cooking methods and it's all in front of our customers.

Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do? They police what's happening inside the kitchen. They have cameras that distinguish ingredients one from each other and that tell you that shouldn't mix this ingredient with another ingredient.

We really bring the unique blend of entertaining and cooking together. Market research shows that people want to learn through experience.

When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'

When chefs like Wolfgang Puck became household names, that became a compelling reason for an intelligent young person to go into the cooking profession. There have been no waiters who have turned into household names. The service and hospitality aspects have clearly lagged behind the kitchen.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

The philosophy of this place is general cooking for people who cook for the people they love. This is basic cooking for people you care about.

First and foremost it is the company, it's these executives that put these numbers together, it's not the auditors. So the people who are actually in the kitchen, cooking the books, stirring the stew, so to speak, are these executives, and there is no excuse for what happened.

While the mom was cooking dinner and the dad was watching television, the daughter, who was 11 years old at the time, was carrying on this conversation with this older man.

There is some home-course cooking involved. There's a few places on this course that our players know definitely not to put yourself there. If other teams find themselves in those places they can end up making bogey or worse. We've already practiced around those areas and set up a good game plan. Hopefully our knowledge and course management will be to our advantage.

We were there for the press conference. For a while, she was on house arrest, so she invited every department up to her farm in Bedford for dinner once a week. One night, the chef of Le Cirque restaurant was cooking for us, and that was really great. Her house was still being furnished, so here we were sitting in this unfurnished room with Martha.

Twenty years ago I was cooking in Las Vegas.

We've received about $2 million and will use all of it in this effort. Some of it will go into additional cooking equipment, which we needed because of being at six different locations (last fall). We're also trying to upgrade our communications equipment.

We are very optimistic about this launch because of the continued market dynamics -- the growing 'trading up' phenomenon and market size, the increasing demand for products that save time, and of course, our highly differentiated product that delivers five-star cooking results in a fraction of the time of conventional methods. We have designed our speed cook oven to answer the articulated wants and needs of the American consumer. With the exceptional responses from our prototype demonstrations around the country, we remain as excited as ever about bringing this powerful cooking alternative to the busy American family.

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.

As the seventh wife of Henry VIII I hope I would have managed to do the old monster in-my cooking comes to mind, as I am a hopeless cook.

Cooking with Guinness is very contemporary. The complexity of the flavor really comes through.

Cooking was his passion. He lived in the kitchen, practically.

Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there's a huge nurturing element in it.

Cooking is a good unifier. It gives people the opportunity to work together.

Cooking in the fireplace is the closest thing to grilling over charcoal or wood out-doors. The principle is pretty simple. You just build a good pile of embers and rake them under a Tuscan grill.

Cooking in France and Italy has a particular high resonance, and it's hard to say how or why it developed other than that they've been smarter and there longer.

Five to 6 grams of trans fat is a huge amount just from one serving. Food services usually use the same oils for cooking fish, chicken and other foods as they do fries, so if they've got the high level in fries, they've got it in lots of foods.

I started to train in economics, and I hated it. I never really entered that world, and went to a cooking school in London. Since then I've been cooking in great places all over the world: mostly California, Italy, and a little bit of France.

I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

I started cooking in college to get girls, ... I was pathetic. Girls didn't want to go out with me. But I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, there was more of a chance that she'd say yes.

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.

Think about it: You go in for lunch, so why not more? Then there?s Bed Bath & Beyond. People are buying cooking utensils there as well as pasta and pasta sauces. The list goes on and on.

It was tight so we wanted to get the ball into the hands of a senior. He was really cooking tonight and we needed that.

These shows are about taking a celebrity out of their comfort zone and showing them in a different environment than you're used to seeing them. All of these celebrities are people who love cooking anyway.

The students will love the changes. We are bringing cooking out to the students. It will really open up dining.

I've always had the motto that you should build at home and maintain on the road. I think it's just early. I guess the cooking doesn't get good until it gets a little warmer.

Sorry, I don?t do offal' - when asked to spend a day cooking at Westminster

Rule No. 1 is prepare as much as you can at home, ... Cook chicken and de-bone it before transporting it, and cut up your beef before cooking over the fire. I cut up the beef at home because of sanitary conditions, but I do cook the meat on the campfire.

Puerto Rican culture is very lively; very lively people; very warm people; and the food is really great. We're all about cooking a lot of food and having family around, we're kind of loud. It's that sort of vibe and it's great.

Rashid Cann is our best defender, I mean by far. There isn't anybody even close as far as an on-the-ball defender. I do know that when somebody starts cooking that I have to put Rashid in the game to hopefully turn the oven off.

People can buy my cooking videos, spaghetti bibs and a wonderful invention called a bread bag. It can keep your Italian bread fresh for days.

After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.

One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'

Once the meat is through inspection, they can start cooking, and I suspect some of them will be cooking all night.

As a teacher, Jon's very professional and able to instruct people with many levels of cooking experience. No matter if you're a beginner or very experienced, you can always learn new things from him about cooking.

All a recipe is is a road map -- how to get from Point A to Point B. In the recreational books, it's a lot more descriptive. Cooking isn't brain surgery. It isn't rocket science. It's the application of some basic principles. It just takes some experience.

You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel great about cooking a good dinner and making a dress for a granddaughter, creating a beautiful birthday party. It's all part of life.

You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.

The WHO has confirmed that eating cooked chicken is safe. The cooking temperature for poultry meat should reach 150F/70C and at KFC, we cook our chicken well above the minimum temperatures required for safety. Also, the chickens are routinely inspected to ensure that they meet or exceed all public health and food safety regulations.

Think of the cooking of the Southwest: Arizona, anything on the border of Mexico, the rich chili culture, the unbelievable stews.

This indictment sends a clear message to corporate America that executives will be brought to justice not only for cooking their own company's books but also for knowingly helping their counterparts at other companies do the same.

Almost everyone in the kitchen has worked in a restaurant or been to cooking school, ... One person started as a dishwasher and now cooks and is in a supervisory position.

This is where everyone hangs out now. Now someone can be cooking in the kitchen or hanging out in the family room while the kids are playing in the play area. They can see and interact with each other.

They're athletes. They're treated like marathon runners or Lance Armstrong. I spend more time cooking for them than myself.

They're all taking turns cooking each day because of the shortage of food down there, ... What they could save from the storm is basically what they've got. I know it's hard for them down there. I know they're hurting. They won't ask me for anything. I don't know what to do.

They have no electric, no nothing. And they're cooking food by the pots out on their grills. And they're just overly friendly here. And here they're the ones that are basically down and out.

I told you about the little cookbook and cooking for my family and thinking I would teach cooking when I thought my career wasn't going to take off.

It smells good, just like the cooking oil.

It smells a lot like you're cooking something,

Follow-up is vital, ... The proof of the pudding will be in the cooking and the eating.

It's the secret for beautiful guacamole or fruit salad. Also potatoes, cauliflower and turnips stay white when you add lemon juice to the cooking water.

It's more interesting to talk about the whole lily family and say, did you know that lily bulbs are also part of the onion family? It's like the stream-of-consciousness way I think about food when I'm just cooking it.

It's outrageous, you have to cook constantly, ... You cook like you're cooking for an army. We make pounds of food and have loaves of bread. That's how you have to do it.

It sort of feels like the better-paid employees are not eating the same cooking that the shareholders are.

YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to news, music, sports, cooking and much, much more.

It's not going to be a quick dinner if you're braising a pot roast. ... Save slow cooking for weekends and special occasions; for weeknights, look for cutlets, thin cuts of chicken and other thin cuts of meat that will cook quickly.

Egg roll, corn, chicken stuffed with rice, hamburgers and ribs, ... They put me in charge of cooking the food. New Orleans people, we're the best cooks.

Everyone does it with a smile. And cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.

It's time for guys to stop apologizing about being guys. You can take a gourmet cooking class or have a Labrador retriever and still have a standing poker game with your male friends.

I try to relish each of the roles I play in life. If I'm cooking dinner for the kids, I throw on my polka-dotted apron. I might don a smart blazer if I am doing a work presentation. If I play a rock show, there may indeed be glitter and fishnets involved. It's my way of saying, 'Thank you, I am glad to be here.'

It took a man to help us understand cooking is not a woman's drudgery. It took a man to show us that it could be fulfilling and wonderful.

It took a little while to get to eating the right things, but eventually I was able to. I had to figure out how to eat more vegetables, and incorporate them into cooking. I did a lot of experimenting on cooking without sodium, and learned to read labels pretty carefully because of all the sodium in everything.

They were there in the first 24 to 48 hours, ... Not our request, they just came. They got on a bus and headed up. During 9/11 they were cooking gumbo and feeding us.

They have what's called the cooking school bloc, which is in the afternoon between 1 and 5. It will be interesting to see how my show, which is travel and food tied together, goes across America.

They live and die with their three-point shot; they got a lot of great three-point shooters. We're just trying to run them off that line -- either go to the rack or shoot mid-range shots. Because we know if they get it cooking from that three-point line, you could give yourself a long night.

Skinhead women are expected to stay at home making babies and cooking food. But if it makes them happy, so be it.

Smoke alarms cannot alert you to the danger and cannot save lives if they are not working. If your alarm is activated when cooking then close the kitchen door and open a window. But that was after a great deal of noxious smoke had been given off which spread throughout the house.

The message of the case is straightforward: Cooking the books is a recipe for disaster.

I'm gonna do it MY way! The problem with cooking is too many rules. You don't have to have perfect squares. Who cares, you know? Like we got some architect judging us at breakfast!

I'm not defending it, and we are concerned about consumer perceptions, but the fact of the matter is, cooking destroys any virus, so canned food, as long as the canning is done properly, doesn't present any food safety problem.

I like assembling sandwiches, and I like cooking a steak perfectly. We make sure it all goes on right.

I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking - a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for steel-cut oats. I travel with a small rice cooker. I soak oats overnight, and when I get up, I just turn the rice cooker on, and it cooks the oats perfectly every time.

I never expected to go to college. Nobody in my high school went to college. We had half-pound rations of meat and of cooking oil. Matches were rationed. Toilet paper was rationed.

Increasingly I've had to learn to be less single-minded, to manage the whole complexity. I'm still learning to balance sitting in the office cooking up plans with getting out of the office and talking to people.

In 1978, when Vickie and I married, I weighed 190 pounds, but was on a never-ending yo-yo rollercoaster ride, ... My weight bloomed, with my wife's good cooking that included a particularly good-tasting meal of roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy and apple crumb pie ... a meal I've not had in a long time, but it was so good, I can still smell it in my memory.