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...

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.