mudbugs” out of their burlap sacks. Other than an onion or maybe an ear of corn, if it wasn’t alive when you threw it in, then it shouldn’t be in the pot, she’d say. Did...

How bad do you want cancer? Bad enough to eat a rainbow of it? Personally, I think the red cancer would be the worst, but anything you swallow with artificial hues in it is going...

I found that I always loved cooking, and that’s an important part of nutrition ? being able to cook and prepare your foods at home. I had seen the cooking school done, and I thought...

She hadn’t known that the ability to make pancakes from scratch made a man brutally hot. Now she did.

The restorative effect of a tasty dinner is quite remarkable. When the going gets tough, the tough get cooking.

He liked cooking. He would go to work sick and you wouldn’t know it. He was so stubborn. His goal was he’d get three cooks on the line, and he’d get on the line by...

He who makes soup of thistles is ill qualified to discuss the savor of a stalled ox.Chinese Sayings

It is a nice buttery, flaky fish that is so pleasant to eat. It requires a delicate cooking method. It can hold up with a lot of flavors and combinations with ingredients. My favorite is...

Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction.

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared...

To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest – on behalf of the senses and the microbes – against the homogenization of flavors and food experiences now rolling like a...

…no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

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.

Arts degrees are awesome. And they help you find meaning where there is none. And let me assure you, there is none. Don’t go looking for it. Searching for meaning is like searching for a...

Get a life,” she said and returned to her task.

Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooking, and did not despise popular pleasures like pubs and vulgar seaside resorts. In many ways, his investigations into ordinary...

Women think they cook better than men. Hmm, I just laugh. Men allowed women to be operating the kitchen because we love women so much. When it comes to the nittys-gritty of cooking, we’ll beat...

Aye. And he’s surprisingly good at it, too!

Invest in what’s real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn’t have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.

You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have...

She’d have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.

I am more of an herb guy than a spice guy. It comes back to a certain conservatism I have regarding food. The French are not big on spices; they use more herbs. I know...

Anyone who thinks they’re too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here.” [Audrey’s insight]

Non c’è posto al mondo che io ami più della cucina. Non importa dove si trova, com’è fatta: purchè sia una cucina, un posto dove si fa da mangiare, io sto bene. Se possibile le...

It’s not really the life of cooking that’s hard – it’s what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

Without another word, we began to eat. I was hungry, but no appetite would excuse the way we set upon those dishes. We shoveled food into our mouths in a manner ill befitting our fine...

I can cook a mean hamburger. I can also cook a rude hamburger, and probably a sarcastic one, depending on how snarky the patty gets.

Columbus took a chance.

Another time, perhaps.

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.

There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that,my...

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