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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. -- Phyllis Diller
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. -- Harriet Van Horne
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. -- Craig Claiborne
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. -- David Chang
Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough. -- Guy Fieri
Cooking can be like foreplay. -- Isabel Allende
Kissing don't last: cookery do! -- George Meredith
Cooking is the ultimate giving! -- Jamie Oliver
Cooking can cure almost anything. -- Michelle Dockery
Cooking is revolution and creation ... -- Simone de Beauvoir
Cooking is the art of adjustment. -- Jacques Pepin
Cooking is exactly like making music. -- Charlie Trotter
Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy. -- Julia Child
Cooking is the showy side of domesticity. -- Adam Gopnik
Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking. -- Emily Saliers
Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me. -- Robert Denning
Cooking done with care is an act of love. -- Craig Claiborne
Cooking is a way of listening to the radio. -- Brian Eno
Cooking is an art, but you eat it too. -- Marcella Hazan
Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion. -- Gertrude Stein
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. -- Paul McCartney
Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother. -- Maya Angelou
...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. -- Julia Child
Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe. -- Linda McCartney
I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving. -- Christine Lagarde
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness... -- Ted Allen
Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out. -- Nicole Hollander
Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives. -- Alice Waters
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. -- Julia Child
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. -- W. C. Fields
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. -- Julia Child
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food -- Erma Bombeck
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need. -- Julia Child
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. -- Orson Welles
Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby. -- Julia Child
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. -- Lewis Grizzard
Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts. -- Fannie Farmer
Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives. -- Crescent Dragonwagon
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. -- Hillary Clinton
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. -- Raymond Chandler
Cooking is so popular today because it's the perfect mix of food and fun. -- Emeril Lagasse
What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof, -- Homaro Cantu
Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says. -- Gordon Ramsay
What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof. -- Homaro Cantu
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. -- Julia Child
I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do. -- Jourdan Dunn
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. -- Jim Davis
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for. -- Sophia Loren
Cooking is a great way to get back in touch with things that brought us comfort. -- Lizabeth Scott
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. -- Julia Child
Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time. -- Anthony Bourdain
Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them. -- Dorie Greenspan
Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover. -- Bobby Flay
Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all. -- Harriet Van Horne
Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe. -- Alton Brown
A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. -- Charles Horton Cooley
Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity. -- Guy Fieri
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on. -- Nigella Lawson
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. -- Julia Child
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Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel -- Dom DeLuise
I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel. -- Dom DeLuise
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye. -- Gordon Ramsay
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being. -- Michael Pollan
Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me. -- Julia Child
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food -- Edna Lewis
No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way. -- Masaharu Morimoto
Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book! -- Claudia Christian
Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends. -- Skye Gyngell
Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body? -- William Katt
Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish. -- Julia Child
Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself. -- David Chang
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. -- Fawn M. Brodie
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food. -- Craig Claiborne
Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms. -- Julia Child
I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys. -- Martin Yan
Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away. -- Paula Deen
Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health. -- Michael Pollan
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. -- Jade Jagger
Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks. -- Judith Jones
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -- Calvin Trillin
Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations. -- Fernand Point
Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners. -- Sophia Loren
Cooking? Oh we were great, you'd take anything and melt cheese on it, and the one who could guess what it was didn't have to wash up! -- Dylan Moran
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar. -- Oscar Wilde
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. -- Andy Rooney
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. -- Julia Child
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. -- Maurice de Vlaminck
I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. -- Maya Angelou
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place. -- Wolfgang Puck
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside. -- Nathan Myhrvold
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. -- Tom Wolfe
I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home. -- Shah Rukh Khan
I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends. -- Cindy Morgan
You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. -- Ina Garten
I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens. -- Alma Guillermoprieto
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart. -- Wolfgang Puck
Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't. -- Gerard Depardieu
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator. -- Cheryl Hines
Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA. -- Andrew Mason
When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner, it's probably going to be a 3-4 ounce portion with heaps and heaps of vegetables. -- Michael Symon
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. -- Ida B. Wells
I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached. -- Ian Mckellen
My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years. -- Tom Brady
Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients. -- Ron Ben-Israel
From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn't eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balancing acids, sweets, spicy flavors and fat. -- Michael Mina
Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction. -- Marcus Samuelsson
First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it. -- Tyler Florence
I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking. -- Heston Blumenthal
I don't even butter my bread I consider that cooking -- Katherine Cebrian
Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry -- Mike Kalin
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table -- Craig Claiborne
I Like this quote I dislike this quote If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat. -- Robert Morley
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied -- Francois Fenelon
The highway is replete with culinary land mines disguised as quaint local restaurants that carry such reassuring names as Millie's, Pop's and Capt'n Dick's -- Bryan Miller

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