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

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...

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.

Cooking without wine is like sex alone. You may get the job done, but you don’t really care once it’s over.

I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.

Out of love I made you a cake. Also out of milk, eggs, flour, sugar, and vanilla.

I’ve never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I’m a cooking teacher.

C’è un alone di stregoneria in tutta la cucina; la scelta degli ingredienti, il modo in cui vengono mescolati, grattugiati, sciolti, le infusioni e come si insaporiscono, le ricette prese da vecchi libri, gli utensili...

Die gastronomischen Kenntnisse sind allen Menschen nöthig, insofern alle die Summe des Vergnügens, die ihnen bestimmt ist, zu vermehren streben.

I’ll go further and say she was one of the best cooks in the world! The compimentary expression, “This food will make you slap yo’ Aint Emma” was apt in her case.

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying...

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

I had a dream about you, I was cooking dinner and you came out of the bathroom with a troubled look on your face. When I asked what was wrong you said “I have never...

A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a...

I don’t like gourmet cooking or “this” cooking or “that” cooking. I like good cooking.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

The sergeants are shunted forward and they blink and stare up at Gonzo as he leans on the edge of his giant mixing bowl. MacArthur never addressed his troops from a mixing bowl–not even one...

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

Sometimes it’s good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

Gran follows recipes by looking at picture—to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really.

I need my fill of Indian home cooking.

For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.

That’s the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

I cook. My favorite thing to make is love.

It took a man to help us understand cooking is not a woman’s drudgery. It took a man to show us that it could be fulfilling and wonderful.

Reading is Intriguing…it can take you on a great Adventure!

I bet you cook good, huh?” Darlene asked.”Mother doesn’t cook,” Ignatius said dogmatically.”She burns.

Two cool things I like about a great cook and their exquisite dishes…they enjoy cooking it and enjoy watching me eat it!

The best meals are those prepared by loving hands.

A home that nourishes life embraces the little moments and appreciates the rhythmic seasons of life, including the time necessary to cook real food from scratch…It doesn’t have to take too much time, however, with...

How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish.

I prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts because they don’t require as much cooking.

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I’m also a control person. I don’t go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to...

Roasted Roadkill and Hitchhiker’s Surprise” (this recipe is a secret concoction handed down from my great grandfather to my grandfather, who told it to my dad just before he ran him over).

It’s 3:32, and I need just one more ingredient to finish baking 3:33. Would you prefer the AM or the PM piece?

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

I’m a homebody, I’d rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

In Berlin, I worked from home, were the only other women sat sedately on my bookshelves. They were good company, it has to be said, but a little quiet.

A dinner made by a great cook is a vision of the world to come.

Cooking is not about convenience and it’s not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your...

Much cooking is based on the season. We serve spring foods during that time of year, all served together.

I’m making naked, and I’m making it by hand and other body parts. Next I’ll be making spaghetti, if my first cooking show hasn’t been canceled by then.

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you’re afraid of it.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.