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

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.