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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans. -- Malin Akerman
Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession. -- Tom Douglas
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiaparelli
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. -- William Shakespeare
There is no one who would have me - I can't cook. -- Greta Garbo
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. -- W. C. Fields
If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat. -- Robert Morley
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. -- Quentin Crisp
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. -- E. O. Wilson
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. -- Laozi
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. -- Thomas Keller
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. -- Julia Child
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. -- Julia Child
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. -- Jeanette Winterson
We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. -- Robert Mondavi
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires. -- Loretta Lynn
This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun! -- Julia Child
I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself. -- Melvin Van Peebles
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. -- Salvador Dali
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. -- Nora Ephron
People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago. -- Laurie Colwin
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
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. -- Laurie Colwin
I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it. -- Steve Albini
After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going against Bobby Flay takes the challenge to another level, but I'm ready to whip these contestants into shape and the winner is sure to be from Team Burrell. -- Anne Burrell
Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar. -- Elizabeth Berg
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert A. Heinlein
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. -- Henny Youngman
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts. -- Paul Gauguin
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. -- W. H. Auden
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? -- Martin Scorsese
Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. -- Lin Yutang
If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood. -- Phil Robertson
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. -- Mel Brooks
I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen. -- Tom Colicchio
Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be. -- Alton Brown
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
The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
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. -- Bryce Harper
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. -- Mike Vogel
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. -- Mario Batali
In my household, everything happens in the kitchen. My parents have this pretty big home, and it doesn't matter how big it is, we will all squeeze ourselves in the kitchen and just chat while my mom or dad cooks. -- Selenis Leyva
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars. -- Steve Albini
My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded. -- 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
Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking. -- Tom Colicchio
I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire. -- Emeril Lagasse
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
Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories. But when I'm at home, I eat what my wife cooks for me. She works hard to avoid making foods that are high in calories and cholesterol, so most of the time, she makes vegetarian dishes. -- Masaharu Morimoto
Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. -- Anthony Bourdain
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! -- John Madden
We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison. -- Greg Walden
Passion cooks. Reason cleans. -- Mason Cooley
No one who cooks cooks alone. -- Laurie Colwin
Too many cooks spoil the broth -- Jane Austen
God made food; the devil the cooks. -- James Joyce
Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks -- Alfred the Great
Man is an animal that cooks his victuals. -- Edmund Burke
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. -- Thomas Deloney
...a tale of too many cooks in the defence. -- Ian Brown
All the women in my family were superb cooks. -- Randy Wayne White
What do men want? Men want a mattress that cooks. -- Judy Tenuta
cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers ... -- M. F. K. Fisher
Sometimes shows suffer from having many cooks in the kitchen. -- Nick Kroll
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. -- Robert A. Burton
Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks. -- Peg Bracken
I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks. -- Tori Amos
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. -- Doris Lessing
I live to eat - when someone else cooks for me. -- Saffron Aldridge
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth. -- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. -- Charlemagne
There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics. -- Bryan Volpenhein
I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family. -- Bobby Flay
[On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat. -- Gwen Stefani
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first. -- Joel Salatin
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks. -- Seneca the Younger
My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though. -- Big Boi
An ugly woman cooks your meals on time, and she'll always treat you kind. -- Jimmy Soul
I love quinoa. It's great, it cooks like rice and is better than caviar. -- Clotilde Hesme
When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. -- John Harington
So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks. -- Auguste Escoffier
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. -- Hector Hugh Munro
Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation. -- Michael Pollan
HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English. -- Bertrand Russell
Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera. -- Trisha Yearwood
Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world. -- David Chang
My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks. -- Michael Symon
You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips. -- Chris Rock
I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff. -- Mitch Hedberg
Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story? -- Patrick Rothfuss
I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend. -- Emeril Lagasse
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine. -- Marco Pierre White
If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out. -- Danielle Trussoni
we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. -- Lord Byron
I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better....but you're lazier. -- Juan Mari Arzak
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. -- Mario Batali
If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do. -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food. -- Ming-Na Wen
Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food. -- Ming-Na Wen
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer. -- Cardinal Richelieu
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. -- Andre Simon
Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that. -- Frank Fairfield
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. -- Denis Diderot
Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.' -- Alton Brown
G-Dragon's music is like sushi. It's sophisticated and has different flavors. His music also changes depending on how much he cooks it. -- Seungri
For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore. -- Michael Symon
The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art. -- James Hamilton-Paterson
New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets. -- Steve Albini
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember! When you tell a woman that she cooks something very good; you will be fucked by eating it three times a day. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept. -- Jose Andres Puerta
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is. -- Mignon McLaughlin
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties. -- Eliza Acton
In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard. -- Rocco DiSpirito
Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids. -- Paul McCartney
When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks. -- H. L. Mencken

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