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.

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn’t cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn’t...

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

I went to L’Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it’s not...

Shit or get off the pot,” because I rarely cook with feces.

The big uncookable sections of who we are, they’re the ones I love to taste the most.

Rather than being about what foods to avoid and why, The Essential Good Food Guide is an introduction or a reminder of what good food is and what to do with it.

Mother doesn’t cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

Though I guess that presupposes that there is a wine I wouldn’t drink.

Cooking is like playing a violin. The bow is a tool used to play, as is the knives and other tools you use to prepare. (a chef’s knife is even held in the same manner)...

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

She helped the hunter with the cooking as a husband helps his wife: when he had gone out to hunt and left something to stew, she would take the pot off the fire. But she...

. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.