As the excesses of ‘molecular gastronomy’ have slowly faded away, like the smell of a particularly pungent fart, a breath of fresh culinary air has swept across the country. I’ve been passionately interested in food...

My message is, as it alway has been, moderation: meat as a main course on three days a week, eggs on one, fish on one other and some form of vegetarian meal on the rest...

My Body Wants to Crave Healthy. I Just Need to Give it the Opportunity.

Cooking is science, throw some ingredients together and a meal may appear, may not be edible but everyone has to start somewhere.

I have a lot of time for vegetarians (though apparently not all of them have a lot of time for me), and that’s because I respect anyone with principles about food.

A yummy mummy is a dedicated and loving mom who embodies a healthy lifestyle while retaining a sense of the person she was before having kids.

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.

We are testing combinations of oils as well, to learn how they affect taste, cooking procedures, holding times and shelf life. As usual, consumers will tell us if they like the changes we intend to...

While the egg yolks cooled, he directed the beaters at the egg whites, setting the mixer on high speed that sent small bubbles giggling to the side of the bowl, where a few became many...

When I got home I peered down at the lobster to see how he was doing. The inner plastic bag was sucked tight around him and clouded up. It looked like something out of an...

[Y]ou can’t control everything. Anything, really. Like the food we’ve been making. We can follow the recipe exactly as your grandmother wrote it, do everything exactly–or almost exactly–as she had, and the dish can come...

freedom.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

I’ve swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark,inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.

in the abstract art of cooking,ingredients trump appliances,passion supersedes expertise,creativity triumphs over technique,spontaneity inspires invention,and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it’s, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

Make sure you have cheese in your house.

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone thinking it was us. In fact, one of the elderly residents of Saltram had left a pan...

Well, every art requires appreciation, doesn’t it? I mean people who paint, sculpt, or write books want an audience. that’s the reason they’re doing it for, and it’s the same when you’re a cook. You...

A lighthearted prayer for Thanksgiving:May you have turkey in seasonCranberries for squeezin’Gravy (within reason)And leftovers worth freezin’!Amenby Merrill Miller of Scottdale, PA

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone’s vegan cookbook is awesome.

Bought marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.

While cooking demands your entire attention, it also rewards you with endlessly sensual pleasures… The seductive softness of chocolate beginning to melt from solid to liquid. The tug of sauce against the spoon when it...

They’re all taking turns cooking each day because of the shortage of food down there, … What they could save from the storm is basically what they’ve got. I know it’s hard for them down...

I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.

enjoy cooking with delicious taste

Such is the indomitable spirit of saffron that even after years stale on my chest, it brought the rice to life with flavor and the color of a sunset. Or perhaps my wife leaned down...

I eat a lot of raw food. Not for health reasons, but because I’m too lazy to cook.

It turns out that Molly wasn’t her mother’s daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles,...

Pork and chicken grease, the aromatics of choice for the Cajun.

In Paris in the 1950s, I had the supreme good fortune to study with a remarkably able group of chefs. From them I learned why good French good is an art, and why it makes...

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

He’d noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in...

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we’ve all had to become disappears, when we’re confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

French culinary tradition was a frontier, not a religion.” If a legendary recipe could be improved upon, then let the gods beware.

I think the biggest difference is the guys will be sleeping in their own beds and eating (home) cooking, so we won’t be worried about that. Hopefully we’ll have good crowds and hopefully most of...

When a couple came to class together, it meant something else entirely – food as a solution, a diversion, or, occasionally, a playground.

I am one of those lucky marvels whose husband has banned them from the kitchen, the last and now permanent ban was during an Everton Three (door slamming on hand) when he’d lamented, in a...

Fanfare for the MakersA cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what?To the small fire that never leaves the sky.To the great fire that boils the daily pot.To all the things we are not remembered by,Which...

Wine is just a conversation waiting to happen.

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. “The trick is moderation,” he said.

I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a...

Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.

If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the...

Butter yo shit.

Many Detroiters, for example, are beginning to see urban agriculture as a real part of the solution; to grow things right where people live, where they work, and definitely need healthier food on the table....

I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what’s fresh.