When it comes to cooking now, my motto is “out with the whites!

Looks delicious,” he lied. “A mite crispy along the edges – but then, I like it that way.”Incredulous eyes met his own. “You like your potatoes burned?”Ah, so he’d been right about that. If he...

Standing back and staring blankly at the glass, he realized he had no idea what it meant to preheat. Obviously he heated it prior to something, but to what?-Boyd

In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it, gather ingredients and labor over its creation.

If it’s good enough to drink, it’s good enough to cook with!

She looked at the produce stalls, a row of jewels in a case, the colors more subtle in the winter, a Pantone display consisting only of greens, without the raspberries and plums of summer, the...

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

Assuming mother’s absence is only for a short time, don’t be too concerned if you find yourself being more relaxed than she is over what the children eat. It is far better to maintain harmony...

The fact was, I wanted the same thing again and again. And so I yielded, bought the good, took them home, cooked, ate, accompanied usually by music, preferably a public radio station that played music...

God save us all.” Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn’t like her back.

Guys, I know some of you are leaving that used frying pan on the stove overnight and using it the next day for another meal. You know who you are. That’s a gateway habit. Keep...

Best Recipes from Eastern Europe” is not only a guide about how to cook, but also about how to decorate dishes in beautiful and unique ways. Let’s make our breakfasts or dinners look classy, lovely,...

During this hour in the waking streets I felt at ease, at peace; my body, which I despised, operated like a machine. I was spaced out, the catchphrase my friends at school used to describe...

No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is

To make my meal in a box taste better, I decided to tweak the logo, rather than the ingredients.

I still have my little red hardcover notebook—spine now held in place by packing tape, pages dotted with cooking stains—filled with her loving instructions for mandelbrot, nut cake, and strudel.

This is something different again. A feeling of peace. The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right, a perfectly risen souffle, a flawless sauce hollandaise. It’s a feeling which tells me that...

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself “well, that’s not going to happen

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

This explains why I’ve been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.

I love cooking. I’m in the restaurant business.

I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I knew it in my mind, but now I know it in my heart.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that.

Taste is the most unexplored sense

Cooking is all about connection, I’ve learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human...

I don’t believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. When one’s hostess starts in with self-deprecations such as “Oh, I don’t know how to cook…,” or “Poor...

If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.

Flambé – done beside a table covered in crisp starched linen in a French restaurant: a method to burn food and money simultaneously.

I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served...

Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes,...

Calvin: Why are you crying mom?Mom: I’m cutting up an onion.Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.

Bon appétit.

Writing is like cooking. You toss in a bunch of ingredients and hope the combination of flavors will appeal to someone’s taste.

Nicely phrased.

as I [Eve] was the only cook in all Christendom at the time, the idea of not coming home to dinner never occurred to Adam… It is true that at times he criticised my cooking,...

She said she doesn’t like your cooking. She said she’d rather eat a microwave dinner from the convenience store instead of something you cooked. Do you get it? Hm? Why are you being such a...

I’m a big believer in cooking your own meals. It makes it much easier not only to ensure that you eat fresh foods but also to follow the second rule of eating (see previous chapter),...

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

Zip it kiddo. Don’t ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it’ll be used against you later in life.

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...