Cooking Quotes Quotes

“María was out of the blocks the moment she heard the doorbell jangle. She came rushing from the kitchen to greet her childhood friend with cilantro hugs and chipotle kisses.”
― Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

“A real dish has grown from all the chefs who have combined their talents over the centuries to develop a meal with unique physical characteristics, for there’s not a chef on earth who can claim sole title to a particular dish. It will have typical Iberian or French features, but with traces of Indian, Celtic, Roman, Jewish and even Moorish culture in its savour, although food can’t possibly pass from one country to another without change”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“The preparation of food also serves the soul in a number of ways. In a general sense, it gives us a valuable, ordinary opportunity to meditate quietly, as we peel and cut vegetables, stir pots, measure out proportions, and watch for boiling and roasting. We can become absorbed in the sensual contemplation of colors, textures, and tastes as, alchemists of the kitchen, we mix and stir just the right proportions.”
― Thomas Moore

“Our lives aren't meant to be fast and functional, like my weekday life had become. Our lives were created to be vibrant--enriched with the foods that make us feel like we’re truly living, to the very fullest.”
― Sarah Copeland, Every Day Is Saturday: Recipes and Strategies for Easy Cooking, Every Day of the Week

“A Wrong Planet Chef always take an interest in the origins of the food he cooks. A particular dish of vegetables, herbs and spices could, for instance, have begun life 5000 years ago on the Indian subcontinent, perhaps in Central India where vegetarian Hindi food is considered as God (Brahman) as it sustains the entire physical, mental, emotional and sensual aspects of the human being. The dish may then have migrated to the Punjab region of the Indian-Pakistan border - The Land of Five Waters - around 250 BC, and from here could have moved on to Western Asia or North Africa as soldiers and merchants moved west with their families into the Eastern parts of the Roman empire, where the cooks would have experimented with new combinations of food, adding fruits, shellfish or poultry to the exotic dish. The dish could then have travelled in any direction heading North through Germany or Sweden to Britain or maybe migrating through Persia or North Africa to Spain and Portugal, creating two very distinct and separate menus but meeting once again in France”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Fearing to ask any more advice, she did her best alone, and discovered that something more than energy and good-will is necessary to make a cook.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Mastership of great culinary skills enriches the wholeness of a fine dining experience.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“For friends, lovers, parents and other relations, cooking can be a profound expression of love.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“If you can read you can cook, if you can season you can delight.”
― Nanette L. Avery

“Great chefs always have to wait for orders. They adapt to all circumstances.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Only the chef puts into practice the teachings of Jesus, that the greatest of you should serve others.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“We say food is a weapon, which is another way to say that food is a means of protest, but good food can also be a tool of liberation.”
― Jon Gray, Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen

“There is no sincere love than the love of food.”
― Food gyaan

“Documenting what I do in the kitchen can feel like the task of recording almost nothing. But it is the nothing I am doing, and do almost every day, and have been doing every day for over a decade. It is the nothing that has been part of almost every social interaction of my life as an adult and through which I have come to know almost all the people I love. It is the nothing through which I have been sustained and transformed.”
― Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

“When we integrate essential oils into our cooking, we open the door to greater health. Essential oils contain potent healing properties.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree, Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all”
― Harriet Van Horne

“if I put something in the oven before it had come to temperature, or if I got the steam going before I had everything chopped, that sort of triviality (or so I thought) was precisely reflected in the color and shape of the final product.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Every step, every stage and every layer of every ingredient matters to us at Tres Amigos Grill.”
― John Kresl

“I pour buttermilk into the crater and work the mixture until it is pasty. Using my fingers, I pull dry flour into the wet ingredients, building on the dough, kneading it, drawing meal from the sides. My fingers make small circles while my hand makes a larger circular motion, working around the bowl.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose

“Tomatoes should be accorded with respect, for without them, Christmas stew wouldn’t exist.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Cooking is not different than mixing a track. You should not rely on spices for your food to taste good and you should not rely on fx/ effects for your mix to sound good.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“It isn’t the presentation of what you do that matters but the heart that thinks about its impact on others that determines its potency.” @reenadossauthor”
― Reena Doss

“No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing," she assured readers. "This is my invariable advice to people: Learn to cook - try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!”
― Alex Prud'Homme, The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act

“It's sooo good!”
― Walter N. Lambert

“I DON’T HAVE THE THYME TO BE ROASTED TODAY”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“The Art of Cooking.
I think creating a dish is an art of seduction. You imagine a taste and you play with your taste buds as if you are touching a part of him that speaks of desire. Revelling in the strength of a taste or savouring the caress of an aroma. Your tongue bearing the experience while your eyes can only feast on envy.”
― Mystqx Skye, Bared - Beneath a Myriad of Skies

“You can't go wrong if you start by simply simmering onions in olive oil. After that the possibilities are endless.”
― William Widmaier, The Laughter of Small Gods: A book of short stories, poetry, mumblings, and whispers.

“For mothers, fathers, and anyone else: it's not lazy cooking... you stood up and did it!!!”
― Karah Khalia

“No measuring device yet invented is half as brilliant as the human hand.”
― Bee Wilson, The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen

“The best knife sharpener is the one that you use.”
― Bee Wilson, The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen