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.

As I was standing in my kitchen cooking yesterday, a quiet task that causes my mind to begin reminiscing (similar to washing dishes, cleaning the bathrooms and mowing), I reached for the kitchen scissors and...

The feet-on-the-stove stance of this book is a deliberate attempt to cure myself, and anyone else who will listen, of the nasty habit of worrying the world to pieces like a terrier with a rag....

When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made my hands tingle and my thoughts switch to a different hemisphere, right brain...

… food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.

Give two cooks the same ingredients and the same recipe; it is fascinating to observe how, like handwriting, their results differ. After you cook a dish repeatedly, you begin to understand it. Then you can...

We’re cooking with gas now.

Melissa had never really caught the culinary bug; in fact, she’d all but had herself vaccinated against it.

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

Somewhere close behind air and water is the need for food.

TV cookery is very like internet porn – the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what’s happening on screen.

Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

He kept one eye on Matt as he talked. He could tell Matt was close to orgasm by the way he title his head to the side and bit his lower lip. “And what about...

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

I think I’ll add a little chili powder.” ~ Seth Asa, age 37From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012

I’m clingy like clang on pots. My love is cookable.

There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

But since soup mainly involves tossing everything in a pot and waiting, it’s one of my better dishes.

Only cowards cook on “low.

A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman

Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,And imprint forever upon our heartsThat this is homeand that we are loved.

…food is capable of feeding far more than a rumbling stomach. Food is life; our well-being demands it. Food is art and magic; it evokes emotion and colors memory, and in skilled hands, meals become...

Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket

Lillian sometimes wondered why psychologists focused so much on a couple’s life in their bedroom. You could learn everything about a couple just watching their kitchen choreography as they prepared dinner.

In fact, people who posses not magic at all can instill their home-cooked meals with love and security and health, transforming ingredients and bringing disparate people together as family and friends. There’s a reason that...

Celery as celery was bad. Celery fried was the work of Satan.

Taking solitude in stride was a sign of strength and of a willingness to take care of myself. This meant – among other things – working productively, remembering to leave the house, and eating well....

Now I know why I had that dream last night. It was a premonition forewarning me of the death of my cooking career!””I doubt that your cooking career is over. You may be working at...

First off, let’s clear this up—fries are not a side dish and you can’t count those as a vegetable. Sorry.

I’m not defending it, and we are concerned about consumer perceptions, but the fact of the matter is, cooking destroys any virus, so canned food, as long as the canning is done properly, doesn’t present...

When sleep came, I would dream bad dreams. Not the baby and the big man with a cigarette-lighter dream. Another dream. The castle dream. A little girl of about six who looks -like me, but...

Those are people who are cooking in the backs of vans, SUVs and vehicles,

Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.