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.

The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson.

I believe it’s a cook’s moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

Why don’t you like the foods I like?” he asks sometimes. “Why don’t you like the foods I make?” I answer.

You can buy canned pumpkin puree or cut up a fresh pumpkin into chunks, steam it until it is tender, and puree the f*ck out of it until you have 1 1/2 cups. If you...

I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even placed.

Having it all is just too much hassle. I’m not every-woman. I’m a working woman. And I’m not entirely sure I see the oint of being as dexterous in the kitchen as I am at...

By nature, I’m very care-taking. There’s something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.

Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and...

I could make dinner with one hand. Especially if I was serving Masturbation Stew.

I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that...

I didn’t start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. – Julia Child

I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of...

Keep it simple, keep it tasty. Salt, pepper and garlic. Shallot another day, lemon grass for nextweek. Nutmeg and cinnamon every now and then.

It smells good, just like the cooking oil.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime. Old garlic, burnt garlic, garlic cut too long ago and garlic that has been tragically...

Would it really be so bad if you slowed your life down even a teensy bit? If you took charge of the ingredients of your food instead of letting corporations stuff you and your family,...

…As the evening wore on (the supper did not end until seven in the morning), the public were admitted to watch the festivities from the balustrade, and were offered biscuits and refreshments to keep them...

Maybe your mind won’t remember what I cooked last week, but your body will.

Meeting writers is usually disappointing, at best. Writers who write sexy thrillers aren’t necessarily sexy or thrilling in person. Children’s book writers might look more like accountants, or axe murderers for that matter. Horror writers...

Because cooks love the social aspect of food, cooking for one is intrinsically interesting. A good meal is like a present, and it can feel goofy, at best, to give yourself a present. On the...

I’m not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I’m a cook and a teacher.