Cooks Quotations

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure. … But I am not really a good cook.

I am very organic; I eat a lot of seeds. At home in the morning, I eat muesli with a banana. At noon, I mix a little bit of all the seeds I can find. I love quinoa. It's great - it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.

I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.

I had to have a large kitchen because I look to cook

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

In my experience, 'SNL' has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas 'MadTV' - even in my 13 episodes there - had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively.

I love quinoa. It's great, it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.

Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.

Guess what the Redskins have? You know, I take the bus to the games, we park in the parking lot where the visiting team parks. So I go out there after the game and they have a food truck there! And the guy comes over and he cooks food for the Redskins, and they come out to the parking lot before they get on the bus and they go to the food truck!

It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night.

I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

I like cooking the biggest steaks. It cooks nice and evenly when it's that thick, and you're not eating the whole thing yourself, which is nice. You get to share that with a companion.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I do love a man who can cook.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

And I don't cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.

People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.

I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.

I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.

I don't cook, but I would love to learn.

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix.

I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.

I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

When I cook, it's something nobody else would enjoy.

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

I love to cook. I could never give that up.

I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things.

I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.

My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

What holds South Sydney back can be attributed to lack of funding, but it also is possibly attributed to too many cooks spoil the broth.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.

I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.

Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.

Come cook food with me and do nothing.

I can't cook. I can barely make a bowl of cereal.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

I'm a rather crude cook.

She's like my mother now, ... She's the one who cooks and takes care of me.

No one asks the cow or the chicken where it gets its protein. I eat about 4,000 or 5,000 calories a day, and I cook for myself. I also have a line of cooks that work with me - some raw, some vegan.

Pork has a lot going for it: It cooks up quickly, it's a good source of protein and it's relatively low in calories.

Nobody cooks at home like they cook in restaurants; they'd all be dead, ... Home cooking is not trendy at all. French cooking really consists of some few hundred recipes handed down. Everyone has a little twist on what is a classic recipe.

I am getting e-mails from home cooks who are happy to have a place to learn more about seasonal foods. They tell me it has been a goal but they didn't know where to look.

I have actually been very fortunate having the same people. The cooks come and go, but basically the management has stayed the same.

I did a show a long, long time ago called 'Cooking Mexican'. It was a studio show as opposed to on-location like the one I do now. Before my first show, I was a cooking instructor, and I did a whole lot of classes for home cooks about Mexican food.

He liked cooking. He would go to work sick and you wouldn't know it. He was so stubborn. His goal was he'd get three cooks on the line, and he'd get on the line by himself and produce more than those three cooks would.

I think the basic thing that home cooks can learn how to do is just season properly... If the home cook realized how little salt they use compared to what's needed, it would make their food taste better.

I think that cooking meals at home is on the decline. Cooks who also plan their meals ahead are probably even a smaller subset.

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

My wife is a terrific Southern cook. My favorite of all the great things she cooks is 'trash potatoes.' That's mashed potatoes with sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, and horseradish. It's a total gut bomb.

Those cooks in Macomb did an awesome job. They had it coming every single night. You knew you could expect to get something good in there to eat. Not that it's bad here, but it didn't seem like it was as much 'down-home' (cooking) as there was in Illinois.

Those cooks in Macomb did an awesome job, ... They had it coming every single night. You knew you could expect to get something good in there to eat. Not that it's bad here, but it didn't seem like it was as much 'down-home' (cooking) as there was in Illinois.

We're not trying to say that Patience Cooks is a horrible human being, but that act she committed on March 26, 2005, was horrible. Justice has to be blind. ... Human life has to mean more than that.

Well, I think one of the problems with 'Birds of Prey' was there were too many cooks in that kitchen. The studio, the producers, the network, all had very different visions of what that should be. They should have just let Laeta Kalogridis control that. Instead they decided to try to get their hands in the mix.

The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? For when I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks

I really like to cook.

Like every other rich asshole, I have a cook and he's in my trailer making food all the time.

The cooks who come to Allrecipes.com aren't coming to romanticize recipe pictures, they're coming to find tried and tested recipes they can make for their families that night.

I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.

Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

I like to cook things very slowly.

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?'

We've got a good variety of cooks who are going to enter the competition. They're going to cook for the public as well. We should have some of the best barbecue in the area here Saturday.

You have been fighting but you did not have the expertise. You are like that the unprofessional cook who cooks malakwang (an Acholi delicacy), but now we said come here and become better cooks, if you have been quack doctors, we have trained you and made you professional doctors ,

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks