We have collected the best Cook Quotes by famous authors including Marcela Valladolid, John Galsworthy, Bee Wilson, Laurie Colwin, Kaley Cuoco and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.
I don’t make mole everyday nor do I cook Mexican food every day.
Marcela Valladolid
The French cook; we open tins.
John Galsworthy
What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.
Bee Wilson
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
Laurie Colwin
I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don’t, I’m dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
Kaley Cuoco
There’s nothing wrong with using frozen and canned food. There’s nothing in this series I’m ashamed of. It’s the way I cook.
Nadiya Hussain
Steaming is a great way to cook any firm fleshed fish, but it’s often overlooked by the home cook.
Tom Douglas
My sister is a masseuse, so we trade – she gives me massages and I give her prepared meals. It’s a great system I’d recommend: Cook or babysit for a friend in exchange for one of her skills.
Giada De Laurentiis
I can cook to please people, but it’s quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
Anna Chancellor
Criticism of a dish is not a criticism of the cook.
Claire Saffitz
My old man never used to cook, so we lived on takeaway. The others were always jealous.
Sonny Bill Williams
My dinner options are kept simple during Wimbledon. I have either salmon with rice, roast chicken with vegetables and potatoes, or steak with salad. My girlfriend Kim will cook, and I know each night that it will be one of those three.
Andy Murray
My mom is a really good cook. I didn’t get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that’s always really fun.
Miranda Cosgrove
I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.
Shalom Harlow
As a child, I’d help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous – she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. ‘Stop! Don’t use that, I have exactly the right utensil.’ After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I’ve become her.
Kelis
My wife can’t cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.
Rodney Dangerfield
I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.
Cara Buono
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
Charles Buck
I learned to cook because I want to know about the food and the ingredients going into my family’s bodies.
Kendra Wilkinson
I love to cook. My mom taught me to cook at a very, very young age.
Dexter Darden
Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.
Michelle Obama
I’ve always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you’ve got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what’s coming to the boil.
Peter Brook
I have built my own factory on my own ground, 38 by 208 feet. I employ in that factory seven people, including a bookkeeper, a stenographer, a cook and a housegirl.
Madam C. J. Walker
Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty’s cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal with the delightful title ‘The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious.’
Terry Glavin
I make sure I make a painting – that’s my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.
Billy Childish
I don’t know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
Rachel Nichols
I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.
Steve Albini
I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.
Coolio
I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn’t matter because it’s the time you spend doing it that’s important.
Sam Worthington
I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder – I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
Imelda May
I’d like to learn how to cook. I’ve hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don’t know what possessed me.
Mamie Gummer
Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.
Kay Robertson
I hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it’s less boring than running. I do find that diet is key. I eat lots of lean protein, no soda, no fast food or fried foods, and a lot of water. But I love food and often cook.
Mike Colter
My cooking attracted celebrities. I met Sylvester Stallone. He squeezed my bicep and said: ‘I don’t usually eat your kind of food, but for you, I ate it.’ I haven’t got a clue what he’d eaten but he asked me to cook for his wedding feast when he married Jennifer Flavin at Blenheim Palace.
Marco Pierre White
I wasn’t passionate about food until I’d been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.
Bobby Flay
One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone’s experiencing flop sweat.
Ted Allen
I’m gonna open a small restaurant on the beach in Mexico. We’re only gonna have a few tables, and we’re only gonna cook what’s fresh that day. We’re gonna get back to the basics… Real food for real people.
Guy Fieri
I’m very good at ordering off the menu and eating food that other people cook for me. My husband’s a fantastic cook. I always come with a good appetite!
Kelly Rutherford
Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
Bobby Flay
Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don’t really have anymore.
Tyler Florence
I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn’t know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more – as long as I can eat what I want.
Alan King
I’m an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.
Morena Baccarin
And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.
Sandra Oh
You don’t have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.
Erin Morgenstern
I mean, I love to try and cook. I’m pretty good, but I’m not saying I’m great.
Nina Dobrev
A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef’s book about improvising but a real home cook’s book with a real home cook’s pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
Sally Schneider
If you cook chopped tomatoes with all of their juices, it takes a long time for the sauce to reach the right consistency. By then, the freshness is gone.
Geoffrey Zakarian
I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends’ mothers make for dinner.
Jane Pauley
I think every young cook wants to write a book.
Thomas Keller
My dream as a passionate cook has been to go to Le Cordon Bleu. Never could my most incredible dream have lived up to the experience. The food, the lesson, the chef, the ingredients – all the best of the best. I see why Le Cordon Bleu is world-renowned.
Blake Lively
I don’t cook very often but when I do I try and make Georgian food. I made a hinkali recently, which is like ravioli but is the size of your palm, with meat in the middle and thicker dough.
Katie Melua
I watch ‘Mad Men,’ I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
Annie Lennox
I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I’ve always liked to cook.
Robert Cray
What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things – to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
Minnie Driver
When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.
Gordon Ramsay
I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
Adam Giles
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.
Eric Ripert
I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.
China Machado
When I moved to Paris at 16, I held a dinner party in my first apartment and served only red wine, French fries, and mashed potatoes. Unable to cook, I relied on people taking me out.
Jerry Hall
I spent time at my grandfather Dino’s gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.
Giada De Laurentiis
If there’s friends around, I’ll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it’s a shame really because I know it’s good for me. It’s something quite therapeutic.
Michael Fassbender
My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.
Kenneth Cranham
I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that’s inspired by Vij of Vij’s Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it’s really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I’m a real chef whenever I create it.
Carmen Ejogo
When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother’s kitchen, my grandmother’s smells. I thought, ‘What a wonderful way to tell a story.’
Laura Esquivel
Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.
Melvin Van Peebles
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
Flavor Flav
I don’t do dishes, and I don’t cook, either! Everything else, I can do!
Chiara Ferragni
Nutritionists have known for some time now that in order to get people to change what they eat, we need to provide them with more access to affordable, healthy food as well as information on how to cook and prepare it.
Chuck Norris
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.
John Salley
I’m a really good cook. I bake a lot. I cook dinner most nights. I cook everything from Italian food to Mexican food. But if I’m going to some place and it’s a potluck, I’m always the one to bring dessert!
Amanda Schull
Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.
Maya Angelou
I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I’m pregnant.
Drew Barrymore
I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a place called the Gran Centurions. It was an Italian-American swim club my parents belonged to.
Tom Colicchio
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
I’m a simple cook, and there’s a lot I don’t eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure.
Mona Simpson
I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
Irma S. Rombauer
The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you’re going to the grocery store, you’re voting with your dollars. Support your farmers’ market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.
Alice Waters
I moved in with a roommate who told me, ‘Stay with me until you can afford rent. Don’t give up.’ People who supported me were like, ‘If you don’t have money for food, I’ll cook you dinner. You don’t have money for acting class? Let’s get together and read lines.’
Chrissy Metz
I’m good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.
Monique Coleman
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson
When I’m hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.
Bobby Flay
You can love food without being a cook. Equally, you can love food and be a very good cook.
Sue Perkins
There will never be a right or wrong way to cook something, but there will always be a more informed way.
Wylie Dufresne
I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
Pamela Dean
My family is delighted every time I cook maitake. Our taste buds awaken in anticipation of its rich, deep and nuanced flavors.
Paul Stamets
I am very picky about my food, and I’m very healthy-oriented, so I always try to cook.
Julie Gonzalo
I’ll starve to death before I’ll cook for myself.
Megan Fox
I’m a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.
Jane Yolen
Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you’re a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.
Wolfgang Puck
When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father – he’s such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It’s just wrong.
Yotam Ottolenghi
New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.
David Chang
In a city like New York, especially for young professionals who aren’t in a family situation, most people don’t cook for themselves. This is the only city I’ve ever lived in where I eat out every night.
Cary Fukunaga
My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.
Giada De Laurentiis
My mother doesn’t cook; my grandmother didn’t cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell’s soup.
Katharine Weymouth
We all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it affordable? Yes. Cheap? No. I want to pay the farmers the right price for food. They deserve it. They are the most important people in the country besides our teachers.
Alice Waters
I’m a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.
Lucy Punch
Gays don’t have a lot of testosterone. I’m talking about that they use both sides of their brain. Straight men only use one side. Gay men are very bright, very handsome… they put themselves better together. They dress good, they decorate, they clean, they cook.
Patti Stanger
I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.
Angelina Jolie
I concentrate on making everything strong, and you can’t do that with just cardio. I strength-train one day – and I’m not talking heavy weights, just a little. I see my trainer one day, next day I take a yoga class or cook. I’m not someone who just opens a pantry and rustles something up.
Jessica Biel
I’m not a strong cook. I can do the crockpot; that’s about it.
Bryce Dallas Howard
I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.
Jonathan Toews
My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid.
Christa Miller
Did I get to go to my friends’ houses and eat junk food? Sure. And I’m a great cook. And, guess what? There’s no prepared food in my house.
Alexis Stewart
Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are forcing low-income families like the one I grew up in out of this city. It’s clear we can’t keep treating low-income and middle-class families like an ATM machine with no limit.
Lori Lightfoot
I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.
Marie-Chantal Claire
Usually I love preparing. It’s really the time I prefer, because it’s a time of reflection and of possibility of growth – to let it cook inside.
Juliette Binoche
For reasons I didn’t understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I’d always assumed.
Bill Buford
You can’t go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It’s also about ease. Some cook to impress. I cook for people to enjoy the food.
Al Roker
Being a cook doesn’t necessarily mean you are a competitor.
Joe Bastianich
I consider myself a good layman’s cook. Ninety percent of the time, I’m successful with what I set out to make, and I can improvise. Yes, I own a mandoline. Yes, we have a Vitamix.
Lake Bell
Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.
Homaro Cantu
People that know me know that I cook. I cook every night.
Amy Sedaris
I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
Rachael Ray
I have so many friends who don’t know how to cook.
Robert Rodriguez
Since I don’t have much time to cook, I tend to cook in bulk and eat leftovers.
Andrea Navedo
I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving – when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.
Daniel Boulud
My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I’d love to do a Brazilian film. I’ve been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I’ve never spoken a word of English to my mother.
Kaya Scodelario
Preparing food is one of life’s great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That’s not cooking – that’s working!
Guy Fieri
One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California… If you don’t have much money, you have to learn to cook.
Diane Mott Davidson
Both my parents worked. So it wasn’t like the previous generation where we learned how to cook and bake from our mothers and grandmothers.
Johnny Iuzzini
I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.
Aziz Ansari
Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he’d be a great guest at any dinner party.
Ted Allen
I cook chicken for a living.
S. Truett Cathy
If you like good ol’ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
Dolly Parton
Fifty thousand dollars’ worth of cabinets isn’t going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn’t matter how big the kitchen is.
Tyler Florence
My mom cooks traditional Albanian food for every holiday. She’s an amazing cook.
Ava Max
I think cooking is really key because it’s the only way you’re going to take back control of your diet from the corporations who want to cook for us. The fact is, so far, corporations don’t cook that well. They tend to use too much salt, fat, and sugar – much more than you would ever use at home.
Michael Pollan
I’m a breakfast type of guy. Don’t get me wrong. I can cook, I’m kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all… Scrambled eggs… French toast… Pancakes… Breakfast is my thing.
Ja Rule
My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who was fantastic. We eventually got our own place, and my mother started learning to cook. But it was also the ’70s, so she was very experimental, and, well – thank God we had a dog.
Debi Mazar
Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren’t an actor.
Ian Somerhalder
My kids won’t eat all whole-wheat pasta, so my trick is to mix some in with white pasta. Cook the whole-wheat for about a minute and a half before you add the white pasta.
Christa Miller
Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the ‘stove’ – the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn’t let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset.
Jose Andres
I’m not a big eater. I’m a terrible cook, and so I don’t cook for myself.
Caroline Paul
Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it’s the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that’s baked instead of fried.
Hugh Jackman
I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don’t cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.
Rene Redzepi
I love to see the smiles on people’s faces when you cook for them. I love to go to different restaurants. I want to cook because I know this acting isn’t going to last forever, and I want something to fall back on. It’s another way to make people smile.
Raven-Symone
The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn’t that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat – an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.
John Krasinski
I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.
Bill Buford
In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook ‘la cuisine bourgeoise’ – good, traditional French home cooking.
Julia Child
Some people are just born to cook and talk.
Guy Fieri
Part of what makes a great chef is the ability to adapt, cook, and to taste. A great chef will use all their food knowledge, food memories, and senses to work with each ingredient and apply themselves to the dish they are creating.
Johnny Iuzzini
I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.
Archie Panjabi
Sorry, I’m not much of a cook.
Isaiah Mustafa
If you cook something on the show, and I don’t like it, I’m going to tell you. I don’t understand how you could watch any of these morning shows, and everything everybody cooks is absolutely delicious. Are you kidding me, man?
Steve Harvey
I didn’t come out until 5 or 6 o’clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat, stay in the house. That sun is hot, anyway. It ain’t right out there.
David Edwards
I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.
Gordon Ramsay
I worked as a breakfast cook in a lot of different restaurants.
Mark Lanegan
Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I’m a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.
Jane Clayson
If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.
Robert Morley
Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I’m using to cook.
Blake Lively
When I am in India, I feel pampered. However, when I am In Georgia, I am on my own, as I have to cook and do things all by myself. However, that gives me an independent feeling.
Sai Pallavi
I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan’s Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.
Dorothea Benton Frank
I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.
Paz Vega
The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there’s milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.
Michelle Ryan
When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what’s offered – and that’s a shame.
Michael Pollan
Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired – up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
Marie Windsor
Leo, sadly, has Parkinson’s, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.
Jilly Cooper
My mom and sister and I all cook.
Trisha Yearwood
‘One Leg Too Few’ by Peter Cook is a perfect sketch. The setting is ridiculous, the language is beautiful, and the performances make the most of every syllable and movement.
Jon Richardson
Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.
Gray Scott
In 2003, Travelex acquired Thomas Cook Financial Services. We only had use of the Thomas Cook name for five years, so I had to increase public awareness of Travelex to migrate all Cook operations over to it. It was a success.
Lloyd Dorfman
Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.
Steve Albini
Why do men think they know how to cook outside when they haven’t the smallest idea how to go about it indoors?
Terry Wogan
Giada De Laurentiis, of ‘Everyday Italian,’ is not a chef, although she has culinary expertise – she was trained at the Cordon Bleu and worked as a private cook for a wealthy Los Angeles family.
Bill Buford
It’s almost ingrained in people that, just like you can’t be a smart model, you can’t be a good-looking cook.
Giada De Laurentiis
I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn’t change my DNA when I got to Washington.
Mike Quigley
Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
Alan King
I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.
Jilly Cooper
Some days I’ll cook, and then some days my wife will cook. For me, obviously on Sundays a lot of times we do the sauce and the meatballs and pasta, the whole thing.
Joey Fatone
My big advert was for ketchup. I come home from school, cook my brother and sister their dinner, ride my bike in the garden. Remember that one? People cried at that advert. It won awards. I was 12.
Russell Tovey
I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.
Nita Ambani
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Michael Palin
People come up to me all the time and say, ‘Oh, I love to watch Food Network,’ and I ask them what they cook, and they say, ‘I don’t really cook.’ They’re afraid, they’re intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don’t know where to start in their own kitchen.
Michael Symon
Until ‘Moonlight,’ I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of ‘groundbreaking’ or ‘never before.’ We were ascribed those things. They weren’t the point.
Barry Jenkins
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli
I love to cook, it’s one of my most favorite things in the world. That’s why I stopped being a vegetarian – I didn’t want to serve people things I hadn’t tasted myself.
Claudia Black
One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.
Camila Alves
I try to cook more now so I can control my diet and what I ingest.
Sara Sampaio
I still think it’s essential for a parent to cook with their children. Weighing out the ingredients and learning where the food comes from is educational, but it also helps to place meal times at the heart of family life. We never had dinner in front of the TV.
Mary Berry
I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch – that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it’s: ‘Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.’
Nadia Giosia
I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
Ina Garten
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Vladimir Lenin
Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn’t happen in two seconds!
Nargis Fakhri
I don’t want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It’s rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it – the more you let out, the less you cook.
Vikram Seth
What I love about the term ‘salad’ is that it can appear in so many different forms and says a lot about the cook. It could be a simple as fresh green lettuces tossed with a basic vinaigrette, or it could be as hearty as a couscous salad with grilled shrimp.
Marcus Samuelsson
I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Adriana Trigiani
I couldn’t cook. I could put a pizza from Iceland in the oven, but that was it.
Joe Gomez
Sometimes you just dread reading scripts; it’s like the chef who doesn’t want to cook at home.
Martin Henderson
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
Zooey Deschanel
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Jeanette Winterson
I cook and wash, cook and wash. When I am done, the kitchen is like a mirror.
Domenico Dolce
I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.
Beverly Cleary
I’m a girl, and I’m a cook- I just like to cook, and I don’t like to worry about the distinctions. We’re just supposed to make good food.
Anne Burrell
One of my favorite things to do is cook. I love taking the time to plan and prepare meals. I try to use all organic ingredients and make everything from scratch.
Marisa Miller
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
Ted Allen
A juicy chicken breast can be the perfect accompaniment to a classic Caesar salad or a club sandwich. It’s also easy to cook, and can be as simple as dressing it with a few spices and popping in the oven.
Marcus Samuelsson
I’m a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don’t know servings – I only know how to make a lot.
Patrice O’Neal
Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook… so don’t touch that door!
Alton Brown
I could cook from quite an early age – purely because I liked it.
Jamie Oliver
Whenever I am stressed, I cook a good meal for my wife. Many people don’t know this, but I’m actually a great cook.
N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
We have our little restaurants, and there’s a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it’s at my house, we order pizza because I can’t cook.
Katie Holmes
Great kitchens are a must-have. A place to relax and cook for friends and family. A gathering place for family of all ages and guests is a staple for me as well.
Hilary Farr
My husband thinks he’s compromising if we have one cook instead of three.
Ellen Barkin
The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it’s a whole different vibe. When I’m home with my kids and partner, I will cook – even though she’s a very good cook. She’s learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.
Cat Cora
Many men today can cook, or at least order takeout, and know where and how to hire domestic help, perhaps with refreshing clarity and less anxiety than ever-conflicted mothers.
Sandra Tsing Loh
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that’s out of this world. I’ll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn’t have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.
Adam Carolla
My family and I cook at home almost every day together. The kitchen is the central and most important room in the house; it’s a great way for us to connect. We love going to the farmer’s market on Sundays as a family and choosing the ingredients together.
Jose Andres
Think about your first kiss – if you did it and it was bloody awful, you might not do it again. It’s the same with cooking – you start off gradually, you get your confidence, and you build on that. Don’t be too adventurous to start with – learn how to cook one dish well.
Ainsley Harriott
I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law’s recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
Gail Simmons
I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
Keira Knightley
Typically, you learn how to cook, but you don’t know why. We were looking for a deeper understanding of what was happening to our food as we roasted it, boiled it, grilled it, chopped it, etc. And it turned out, as we began to really say what is cooking, what does it mean to cook, there’s a lot of science involved.
Wylie Dufresne
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, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Laurie Colwin
The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling – to get yourself outside.
Barton Seaver
My least favorite ingredient to cook with is black pepper.
Anne Burrell
I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it’s the appeal of the simplest of dishes – things you’ve grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory – something that not only affects your taste buds but that you’ve got an emotional attachment to.
Andy Garcia
I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
Yolanda Adams
When I cook, my brain stops completely.
Dino De Laurentiis
Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits – which I also love. But I never make the instant kind – some things a Southerner just won’t do!
Paula Deen
I’ll tell you this: I will be committed wholeheartedly to Little Big Town as long as the Lord allows this ride to continue. And then I’ll cook until way after people want to look at me.
Kimberly Schlapman
I love to cook. But I’m a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything’s burnt.
Isla Fisher
My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.
Alex Guarnaschelli
I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that’s more of a quiche, isn’t it?
Lesley Nicol
Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they’re in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don’t. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you’re able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.
Nathan Myhrvold
I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I’m a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted to write a book where desserts had to be extensively researched, since I have a terrible sweet tooth. My particular downfall is cake.
Julia Glass
I really like to cook.
Carly Rae Jepsen
You’ll always find me at a good sushi spot. Once, at a restaurant, a cook came out from the kitchen and asked for a picture with me. That was flattering.
Charlotte McKinney
It’s my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it’s a luxury on a level that I didn’t even realize, because it can be relentless for me on some days. You have pride in how you take care of your family.
Julia Roberts
Food is celebratory. People who don’t cook don’t know how much fun they’re missing.
Leo Buscaglia
My inspiration was my mom. She’s a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
Emeril Lagasse
I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don’t think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
Feist
Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.
Mike Quigley
I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.
Anthony Bourdain
I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.
Diane Lane
It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald’s. He doesn’t even like the food; he just wants the toys, the Happy Meals. I can’t stand to see people walking down the street eating fast food.
Julia Sawalha
I love a good paella, so I’d love to be able to know how to cook one.
Jamie Vardy
Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.
Rene Redzepi
What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook – it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables.
Julia Child
I cook rarely, but I’ve kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.
Chris O’Dowd
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook’s time than now. It’s amazing.
Robert Ballard
I’m so thankful that Mum taught me to cook, because not every day is a takeaway day.
Big Narstie
Buy the best you can find or afford and don’t over manipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.
Tom Colicchio
I’m a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 – so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.
Jaime Pressly
People ask me in Europe, when they do interviews… they ask me, ‘Well, how does it feel to be a cook in a country that doesn’t know how to eat?’ It always touches a nerve, because Europe and the world think that America is no more than bad hot dogs and bad burgers.
Jose Andres
I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.
Jasper Carrott
I try not to spend 10 hours in the kitchen when I cook at home for guests. That’s why I try to be really organized and have everything thought out.
Dominique Crenn
Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, ‘He’s very odd, but he likes to cook. He’s creepy, but he makes good pancakes!’
Zoe Lister-Jones
If somebody doesn’t want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it’s great to be in a city that’s got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays.
Danny Meyer
Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
Adam Gopnik
I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.
Julia Roberts
My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I’d long stopped believing in God.
Simon Schama
Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable.
Tom Douglas
If you’re going to start a fire, why cook just one chicken?
Tom Douglas
I’m a very improvisational cook. I sort of like to make things up as I go along. I’m quite creative in the kitchen.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Why can I cook for tourists that come and visit L.A. and are so excited to see the Kogi truck? Because I cooked at country clubs and Embassy Suites hotels.
Roy Choi
I love to cook comfort food. I’ll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.
Reese Witherspoon
Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.
Rocco DiSpirito
A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
Wolfgang Puck
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
Loretta Lynn
I’m good at anything that’s country – biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God’s sake. I cook what I like to eat.
Blake Shelton
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
I have a lot of influences. I’m American-schooled. I’m classically trained. I’m a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don’t pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor’s degree, but I’m still a cook.
Emeril Lagasse
With wok cooking, you chop things up into little pieces for maximum surface area, so they can cook in minutes, if not seconds. Sauteing is energy efficient; baking is not.
Jennifer Lee
Eat all the junk food you want – as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it’ll be less junky, and you won’t eat it every day because it’s a lot of work.
Michael Pollan
I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.
Christopher Buckley
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
Tori Amos
People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn’t tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic – even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn’t tell you that.
Bobby Seale
Cook what’s fresh for the day. When you’re using fresh fruits, vegetables, and foods, it’s easier to keep the weight off. And I eat whatever I want – just not a ton of it.
Debi Mazar
I’m the kind of girl who thinks about what she’s gonna cook for dinner when she’s finishing her lunch.
Padma Lakshmi
After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook.
Tia Mowry
One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I’m Swiss. It’s a great social meal.
Ryan Seacrest
If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won’t go in there. That’s why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.
Giada De Laurentiis
I don’t really like going out for dinner. It’s way better to not have to wait for food… It’s quite boring. I don’t cook anything, though; I just transfer it from the fridge into bowls. I’m more of a transferer than a cook.
Suki Waterhouse
If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I’m so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.
David Chang
Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can’t ask one chef – I have to ask six.
Alice Waters
I don’t live my life as a writer. I’m a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does – cook and a little bit of cleaning.
Terry McMillan
I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.
Alex Guarnaschelli
I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.
Joel Salatin
Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.
Action Bronson
I say time and time again – yes, cooking is wonderful to cook for your loved ones and see them eat the food but the most important thing is getting them all sat around the table together.
Ainsley Harriott
I buy extra virgin olive oil by the case (much less expensive this way) and reach for it several times a day. I use it to marinate and cook my protein, saute my vegetables, and drizzle on my salads.
Suzanne Somers
I love to cook and I’ve cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.
Elizabeth Kostova
Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.
Ellen G. White
I’m not saying my wife’s a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.
Bob Monkhouse
Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
Frances Mayes
I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
Action Bronson
I can’t cook! It’s genetic. My grandmother can’t cook, my mother can’t cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.
Jada Pinkett Smith
I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook – you know, self-survival.
Tom Douglas
I love to cook when I have the time. I don’t cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I’m lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, ‘Let’s go out to dinner.’
Salma Hayek
When I cook, it’s something nobody else would enjoy.
Troy Polamalu
I don’t cook – I can cook – but I’m not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can’t cook either. We would starve if it weren’t for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.
Mark Mothersbaugh
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It’s just a characteristic.
Francis Ford Coppola
I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.
Eric Dane
Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he’d expect her to cook.
Don Meredith
I don’t really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I’m an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
Patricia Marx
I cook naked, and I walk around naked. I’m very comfortable with my body.
Tracee Ellis Ross
When I’m home, I cook my own dinner, all organic.
Big Sean
Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that’s changed the way we cook.
Marcus Samuelsson
I can’t cook to save my life.
Vidya Balan
I do like to cook; I’m sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.
Kyle Chandler
People who live in L.A. don’t like to leave their homes because they have so much space. They have the nice kitchens and a cook and a pool. When you live in L.A., there is a sense of isolation in terms of raising a family.
Solange Knowles
They wouldn’t take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who allowed monocular crew if you worked in the kitchens. You’re not wanted on deck or in the engine room with one eye, but you’re good to fire up the ovens and cook hundreds of chops.
Peter Falk
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
Robert Mondavi
I don’t normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
Wayne Rooney
I mean, I can cook, but I’d get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.
Prabal Gurung
My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It’s like a commune – everyone gets on – and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.
Oona Chaplin
Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn’t until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.
Paula Deen
I think anybody can cook if they take the time.
Coolio
I really didn’t have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn’t take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.
Paula Deen
I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I’m skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what’s on the stove.
Gene Simmons
I’m always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein – it’s down to him that I cook fish so much – and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.
Charles Hazlewood
I’m a simple hillbilly. I don’t like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I’m traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.
Andrea Hirata
I’m a home cook and love to read about food, but I’m not trained as a chef. I’m just really into cooking and passionate about it.
Ted Allen
At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
Robert Farrar Capon
I’ve always felt like a foreigner wherever I’ve lived. I don’t feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.
Tom Conti
In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach.
Rene Redzepi
I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef’s table… Unless they can identify what they’re tasting, they don’t get to cook it.
Gordon Ramsay
The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I’m convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don’t cook and so I won’t see it. I do drink Cokes, though, so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.
Jenny Lawson
Even if I’m gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
Gabrielle Reece
However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I’ve been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It’s just something I’m passionate about.
Ted Allen
I love to cook. I’d hoped by now I’d have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you’re in New York, it’s known that I’ll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Cara Buono
I don’t know how much love David felt – I suspect very little. My main appeal to him was as a nurse, cook, housekeeper, creative ally, and business adviser.
Angela Bowie
I’m a good cook; one of my specialities is reindeer and potato pie.
Terry Jones
I’m a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I’m either cooking, or we’re going to a drive-through somewhere. I’m really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.
Chandra Wilson
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.
Alice Waters
I wasn’t a great cook, but I was a passionate one.
Kathleen Flinn
I am very picky about my food, and I’m very health oriented, so I always try to cook.
Julie Gonzalo
Whites cook at a lower temperature, set at a lower temperature than yolks. That, to me, is very interesting. That has opened up – as an egg lover, that has opened up sort of a world of possibilities, of applications.
Wylie Dufresne
The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn’t know how, I was shocked.
Isabella Rossellini
I just don’t tend to cook eggplant at home.
Yotam Ottolenghi
I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
Nathan Myhrvold
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
Jeffrey Kluger
My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
Chazz Palminteri
As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.
Madeleine M. Kunin
I’m a terrible cook.
Gillian Jacobs
Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they’re not intimidated by them. If I’m doing ‘Boy Meets Grill,’ and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.
Bobby Flay
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
Barry Humphries
I’m not a trained chef. I’m a self-taught cook, and I want people to be like, ‘Yo, I could do that! Maybe I didn’t think to or maybe it seemed harder than it really is.’
Haylie Duff
My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style… I cook from the soul.
Aaron Sanchez
I cook every day. If I don’t cook, they don’t eat. Who’s going to do it? I’m their mother!
Jennie Garth
Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.
Eva Longoria
To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I’m a meat eater and a griller – I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!
Taylor Kinney
I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.
Anna Held
Home economics – kids in school used to be taught how to shop, how to cook from scratch, how to be in control of their diets. Doesn’t happen anymore.
Michael Moss
Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn’t mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l’orange.
Nadia Giosia
I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald’s with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.
Eric Schlosser
I can make things, but I don’t cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I’m too absentminded.
Paula Poundstone
I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it’s very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.
John Stamos
As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.
Mary Quant
I don’t know how to cook and there’s so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I’ll just order some take-out.
Famke Janssen
I cook all the time, and I cook all different kinds of things, but never Mexican at home. That’s my work.
Rick Bayless
Are you kidding? I’m a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.
Rebecca Romijn
I never cook from cookbooks.
Teresa Heinz
I don’t cook. I think they named the ‘Mike’-rowave after me.
Michael Jai White
I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook’s best friend.
Emeril Lagasse
Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
Yotam Ottolenghi
I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business – people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can’t just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you’ve brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.
Mimi Kennedy
My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, ‘Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.’ I think, in retrospect, she didn’t like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.
Ina Garten
I grew up in Lucknow, which is famous for its street food and kebabs. It was the street food and Lucknowi kebabs that inspired me. The culture of the varieties of food that I tasted as a child inspired me to be a cook.
Ranveer Brar
I’m a complete foodie, but I’m a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that’s amazing.
Emily Ratajkowski
There isn’t a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there’s the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn’t, I still did it all.
Lesley Manville
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
Andre Dubus III
I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule.
Sasha Cohen
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Brussels sprouts are misunderstood – probably because most people don’t know how to cook them properly.
Todd English
My favorite southern dish has to be fried chicken. I love to cook it. I love to have it in the summer.
Katie Lee
My mom and dad both would grow vegetables. So, when I delivered my baby, we went there, and she would cook a lot, and we would eat all the vegetables from their garden.
Doutzen Kroes
My mother likes what I cook, but doesn’t think it’s French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I’m the quintessential French chef.
Jacques Pepin
I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn’t creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager.
Brit Morin
Producing isn’t just making beats on a beat machine. It’s bringing together these string players with this flute player and this singer, and telling them to all work in the key of C major… You bring these people together and let them all cook.
Logic
My husband is the chef of the family; he’s a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that’s so good at cooking under the same roof. It’s all beans or spaghetti when I’m left to run it.
Keeley Hawes
I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
Aaron Sanchez
Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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.
Steve Albini
If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It’s for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic.
John Madden
Cooking, to me, it’s kind of therapeutic. It’s completely different from music as well. I’m not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I’m not just saying this, but anytime I’m on the bus or at home, I’m watching Food Network or cooking on TV just ’cause it’s interesting to me.
Phillip Phillips
I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook – and I’m a good cook – because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people’s houses.
Cameron Mackintosh
I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design – not making it, just looking at it. I’m always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things.
Kevin Bacon
People always comment about my clothes. They don’t think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
Padma Lakshmi
I cook anything, be it vegetarian or non-vegetarian. But mutton dishes are my favourite.
Nana Patekar
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
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
I’ll cook a batch of brown rice or quinoa and keep it in the fridge, so when I get hungry, I can easily dress it up with olive oil, lemon, and salt and pepper, and then add veggies.
Marisa Miller
My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He makes amazing omelets, fish, and grilled vegetables like Brussels sprouts and cauliflower.
Dylan Lauren
Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hills, make up country songs as I pedal along, sing them, have lunch, have a nap, groan, moan, write a small bit more, cook dinner, feed wifey, open a bottle, or several, slump, sleep.
Kevin Barry
I can’t look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.
Rory Bremner
For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it’s the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.
Hugh Jackman
You can’t fake being able to cook well.
Gail Simmons
My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were the mainstays of my childhood.
Ainsley Harriott
Once I was unemployed and didn’t have money, you can’t just go to dinner. The onus is on you to learn to cook… I learned how important the right equipment is.
Jen Lancaster
I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I’m a robot; I sing them. I put a pencil in my mouth, and I say them. I cook. I play with a cushion and say them – so they really are inside of me.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
When I wrote ‘Fast Food My Way’ in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I’ve written in the past 30 years.
Jacques Pepin
I’ve been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It’s not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I’ve been really good about it.
Jenna Dewan
I can’t resist South Indian cuisine, particularly what is prepared at home. My mom is my favourite cook. She can cook a variety of cuisines. I savour her cooking at home, and she’s undoubtedly the best.
Deepika Padukone
The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget.
Alain de Botton
In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything – food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, ‘Where is my food?’
Liang Chow
I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.
Kamala Harris
I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one’s cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.
Simon Schama
I love to cook breakfast. I am a morning person.
Nyle DiMarco
I mostly get takeout, I have to admit – I don’t know if that’s something to be ashamed of. I’m not much of a cook.
Janeane Garofalo
We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.
Michael Pollan
In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice – in a ‘paradox’ that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified – our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.
Bee Wilson
I’m a good cook, and I look at something like ‘Iron Chef’ and think, ‘It’s a good thing I already know how to cook’ – because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows.
Nora Ephron
I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of ‘Everyday Italian,’ and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It’s very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.
Giada De Laurentiis
I’ve never been a great cook.
Freddie Highmore
I love to clean. I love to cook.
Monica Potter
I’d say I’m a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make – schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.
Heidi Klum
I stay on the road so much that my fiancee and I were talking the other night about what I wanted her to cook. I told her I don’t even remember what a home-cooked meal is.
Brantley Gilbert
And I love to cook! I’ve impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.
Luke Evans
I still don’t know how to cook and that’s just unacceptable.
Mo Rocca
I’m a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I’ll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.
Abby Wambach
Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an amazing cook, and she helped me cultivate a love for food. She taught me that food can be beautiful. We eat not just for survival, but we survive to eat. It’s part of who I am.
Kelis
My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I’d watch him behind the grill, and I said, ‘If I ever make it and have enough money, I’m going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.’
Jesse McCartney
I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
Macaulay Culkin
What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation – but I’m not sure it actually has. I’m not sure there’s been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.
Fergus Henderson
I’ve always loved my red wine, and when I’m not working I can open a bottle too many. I love to cook, so it’s one for me and one for the casserole. I would consume a bottle of wine on my own of an evening and then literally pass out.
Amanda Donohoe
I’ll go grocery shopping at the farmer’s market on a Sunday and already know what I’m going to cook for the next two, three or four days.
Tia Mowry
My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.
Julian Castro
I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.
David Duchovny
I’ve always been able to cook Italian food. That’s in my blood because I’m half Sicilian.
Jen Lancaster
I can’t really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.
Louis Tomlinson
At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I’m told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all.
Suresh Raina
A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even liked his food. It’s hard to spend hours perfecting a dish only to relinquish control. But chefs need to put aside their egos and trust the people serving the food.
Daniel Humm
My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.
Jami Attenberg
I’m not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
Rachel McAdams
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
I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it’s a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy.
Bill Rancic
I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that’s when things go wrong.
Michael Symon
I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
Fran Drescher
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
Ferran Adria
I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
Iman
My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
Mandy Patinkin
Believe me, I did not come to London to cook farmed fish. All my fish are wild.
Alain Ducasse
I’m an actress, a writer, the editor-in-chief of my lifestyle brand ‘The Tig’, a pretty good cook, and a firm believer in handwritten notes.
Meghan Markle
I try to cook dinner, but it’s difficult when I’m working.
Kate Walsh
I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
Taissa Farmiga
I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o’clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.
Garrison Keillor
Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
Jason Silva
Occasionally I volunteer in the kitchen of a pop-up supper club in L.A., which I really love. It’s like being a line cook in a great restaurant for one night at a time.
Lauren Kate
I’m the happiest at home when I get a visit from my daughter-in-law, BC Jean, and Mark Ballas, my son. They’ll pop round for breakfast or I’ll attempt to cook them a meal. That’s the most special time for me.
Shirley Ballas
I don’t hate Dane Cook, but I am trying to go after people I think are capable of more.
Andy Kindler
Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
Woody Allen
My daughter loves to cook. At first, I found myself making her be really neat and precise. Then I realized it’s OK if things get all over the floor and counters and ceiling. We’re making memories.
Kimberly Schlapman
When I was really, really young, I wanted to be a cook at Bob Evans because my parents would always go there every Sunday after church.
iJustine
It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.
Bobby Flay
I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.
Paula Fox
My kitchen witch hangs above the sink in my kitchen. Some people think it’s specifically so that you don’t burn food when you cook, but I like to think that it’s warding off evil spirits and bad things in general.
Perfume Genius
Even before marriage I used cook delicious dishes for my wife and mother-in-law on Jamai Sasthi.
Kharaj Mukherjee
I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I’m good, though I think it’s quite gruelling as a profession.
Edmund White
I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.
Penelope Cruz
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that’s not animal dung.
Rex Tillerson
I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don’t have to cook it, which is handy.
Jo Brand
I’m not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.
Gordon Ramsay
Even though Czech food is traditionally a bit heavy, especially for a climber, I can’t resist some dishes: sveckova, for example, is beef in a creamy sauce with celery and dumplings. It’s probably fortunate that I don’t know how to cook it myself.
Adam Ondra
I’ve been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I’m always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.
Jose Andres
My feeling is that if you can cook, I can teach you how to do television.
Bobby Flay
Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.
Craig Brown
You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.
Alain Ducasse
I am a fantastic cook. It’s my great passion.
Sean Pertwee
The worst food you’ll ever eat will probably be prepared by a ‘cook’ who calls himself a ‘chef.’ Mark my words.
Alton Brown
Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.
Steve Wozniak
I’m French, I know how to cook.
Dominique Crenn
To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you’re bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.
Neel Mukherjee
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook’s year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
Mario Batali
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
When you cook a sausage, the skin sometimes breaks and the ground meat comes apart.
Jose Andres
My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.
Eva Longoria
Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.
April Bloomfield
Feminists of my mother’s generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.
Emily Oster
