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Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. -- Erik Naggum
I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her. -- Steve Carell
New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked. -- Amy Lee
Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much. -- Jerry Saltz
I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I'm going to serve that meal that everybody's been waiting for. -- Fetty Wap
I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping. -- Helen Fielding
Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them. -- Paul Prudhomme
Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I only get fat when I eat food cooked by other chefs. At home, my wife does all the cooking. She makes simple things like soups and salads. We both like steamed tofu. -- Alain Ducasse
Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. -- Carol Alt
I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil. -- Maeve Binchy
Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced. -- Seth Shostak
My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. -- John Lasseter
The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here. -- David Plouffe
I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album. -- Estelle
I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home. -- Giada De Laurentiis
My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband! -- Rachael Ray
I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count? -- Andy Cohen
I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game. -- Alton Brown
My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce. -- Tom Douglas
It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question. -- Kate Winslet
One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing. -- Jeff Goodell
I've cooked just about everything really. -- Jamie Oliver
Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982. -- Lesley Nicol
I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982. -- Lesley Nicol
I like children. If they're properly cooked. -- W. C. Fields
If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked! -- Elizabeth Taylor
Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat. -- Konrad Adenauer
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor. -- Jerry Saltz
Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked. -- Heinrich Muller
I never cooked at home - my father was the chef. -- Rene Redzepi
I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close. -- Kobe Bryant
My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books. -- Don Nickles
Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else? -- Sue Grafton
Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked. -- Carrie Fisher
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When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked. -- Laozi
My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy. -- Cat Cora
Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked. -- Neil Gaiman
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell. -- Walter Scott
I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing. -- Julia Child
I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food. -- Ferran Adria
Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are -- Curnonsky
Don't go and cook Indian food if you never cooked Indian food, you know? -- Wolfgang Puck
Maybe your mind won't remember what I cooked last week, but your body will. -- Erica Bauermeister
I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years. -- Elizabeth Kostova
I am a foodie, but I prefer to be at home and enjoy home-cooked food. -- Ronit Roy
Everybody's eating all my - brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw. -- Carol Alt
When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal. -- Maria Sharapova
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher. -- Juvenal
My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward. -- Michelle Huneven
I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked. -- Ann Patchett
The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked -- Rumi
The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
The trans fatty acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast cancer. -- Edward Martin
I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs. -- Elizabeth Berg
My go-to winter recipe is beef and butternut squash stew, cooked in the slow oven all day. -- Jojo Moyes
I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom`s around I let her do it. -- Tom Cruise
Here's a Thanksgiving tip. Generally, your turkey is not cooked enough if it passes you the cranberry sauce. -- Joan Rivers
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. -- Tori Amos
I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal. -- Karen Marie Moning
People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds. -- Anthony de Mello
Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way. -- Steve Albini
A delicious meal cooked by a colleague for many others nourishes not only the body but also the soul. -- Danny Meyer
[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding. -- Dick Van Dyke
In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them. -- Anna Freud
My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake. -- Cara Buono
One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out". -- Rodney Dangerfield
An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature. -- Bobby Flay
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I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast. -- Ethel Merman
The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt. -- Rumi
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. -- Salvador Dali
When I was at home, I always cooked, and I usually cook over all the holidays. I always used organic. -- Nell Newman
We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great. -- Desmond Tutu
I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding. -- Archie Panjabi
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her. -- Peter Capaldi
I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me. -- Joel Robuchon
In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself. -- Isak Dinesen
I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me. -- Rufus Wainwright
To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance. -- Paul Engle
Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked. -- Kathryn Stockett
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways, -- Isabella Beeton
One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners. -- Louis Tomlinson
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. -- Nancy Gibbs
For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked. -- Meghan Daum
There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago. -- Lewis Grizzard
If I have pizza or Taco Bell one day, I'll have home-cooked meals the next. I try to listen to what my body craves. -- Ashlee Simpson
Kasha is the hardy starch of a Slavic winter - buckwheat, in fact - but when cooked properly, it gets a nutty, deep-brown crust. -- Bill Buford
Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up. -- Amanda Schull
In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked. -- Laurie Graham
People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for. -- Danny Meyer
It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked. -- Catharine Beecher
When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant. -- Ashley Jones
When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage. -- Mario Batali
Rarely do I ever think of my music as inspired but I guess it must be. Perhaps I would use the word "crockpotted" or "pressure-cooked". -- Milo
I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked. -- Ed Balls
I went into raw vegan for a while, but I prefer cooked food, the way it smells, the way it feels going through your system. -- John Salley
Chickens are interesting individuals who have as much right not to be cooked and eaten as a dog or a cat or even a human being. -- Bruce Friedrich
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. -- Alan K. Simpson
Nowadays, food needs to be healthy, local, sustainable and not filled with too much fat, salt or sugar. It should be slow-cooked and seasonal. That's my vision. -- Alain Ducasse
I've been very fortunate, because I've cooked for a lot of actors and actresses and musicians. I've cooked for presidents and I've been to the White House... -- Emeril Lagasse
I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough." -- Arthur Potts Dawson
I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough. -- Arthur Potts Dawson
We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country. -- Jesse Jackson
People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon . -- Rodney Dangerfield
the ultimate in longevity is the Christmas fruitcake. It is a cake made during the holidays with fruits that make it heavier than the stove it is cooked in. -- Erma Bombeck
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes. -- Norman Douglas
When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner. -- Vince Cable
It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower. -- Sylvia Plath

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