Cooking Quotes

Cooking is self-care at its most basic and nourishing.

Meg Bowman

A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe.

Thomas Keller

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors—it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.

Wolfgang Puck

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

Thomas Keller

Learn to combine wholesome, nourishing articles of food in such a way as to make appetizing dishes.

Ellen G White

Cooking with love provides food for the soul.

Valerie McKeehan

Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together.

Guy Fieri

Happiness is homemade.

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others. It’s the same with music.

will.i.am

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.

Julia Child

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Nora Ephron

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It’s about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

Guy Fieri

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

Tom Jaine

If you think well, you cook well.

Ferran Adria

We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of an opportunity to eat badly.

Anna Thomas

Real cooking is more about following your heart than following recipes.

I don't like gourmet cooking or this cooking or that cooking. I like good cooking.

James Beard

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.

Thomas Keller

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Craig Claiborne

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Julia Child

My two rules of cooking: keep it fresh and keep it simple.

Michael Isabella

Cooking is revolution and creation.

Simone De Beauvoir

Working in the kitchen is my soul and my life, and I love it. I'm not there because people expect to see me; I am there because I want to be.

Heinz Beck

You have to be yourself when you are creating and cooking. You do what you need to do and you do it to the best of your ability.

Leah Chase

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don’t realize it. Even if you’re not a great chef, there’s nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn’t.

Gerard Depardieu

If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

Michael Strahan

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

Curnonsky

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

Jacques Pepin

No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

Julia Child

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation—experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.

Paul Theroux

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.

Sophia Loren

I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.

Madam Benoit

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can’t do if you’re so completely focused on a recipe.

Alton Brown

When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.

Laiko Bahrs

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.

Laurie Colwin

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Marcel Boulestin

The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Sophia Loren

People want honest, flavorful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

Ted Allen

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

Alice Waters

It’s not about passion. ….. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it’s about desire. If you have a constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then you’ll be a great cook.

Thomas Keller

It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.

Ellen G White

Cooking is the ultimate giving.

Jamie Oliver

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well, one must love and respect food.

Craig Claiborne

All sorrows are less with bread.

Cervantes

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Maya Angelou

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

Wolfgang Puck

The greatest dishes are very simple.

Auguste Escoffier

It is a sin to place poorly prepared food on the table, because the matter of eating concerns the well-being of the entire system. The Lord desires His people to appreciate the necessity of having food prepared in such a way that it will not make sour stomachs, and in consequence, sour tempers. Let us remember that there is practical religion in a loaf of good bread.

Ellen G White

Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Let not the work of cooking be looked upon as a sort of slavery.

Ellen G White

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

Jacques Pepin

Cooking…is a science in value above all other sciences.

Ellen G White

The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation—he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

Pearl Bailey

The one who understands the art of properly preparing food, and who uses this knowledge, is worthy of higher commendation than those engaged in any other line of work.

Ellen G White

I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.

Madame Jehane Benoit

One of the most meditative times of my day is when I'm cooking.

Gabrielle Bernstein

I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.

Ellen G White

The cook fills an important place in the household. She is preparing food to be taken into the stomach, to form brain, bone, and muscle. The health of all members of the family depends largely upon her skill and intelligence.

Ellen G White

If you like good food, cook it yourself.

Li Liweng

Cooking is one of the greatest gifts you can give to those you love.

Ina Garten

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

To cook well, to present healthful food upon the table in an inviting manner, requires intelligence and experience. The one who prepares the food that is to be placed in our stomachs, to be converted into blood to nourish the system, occupies a most important and elevated position.

Ellen G White

Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order, and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.

Malcolm De Chazal

Learn how to cook.

Ellen G White

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

Ted Allen

When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.

Laiko Bahrs

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue, simplicity is the mark of a master-hand. Don't run away with the idea that it is easy to cook simply. It requires a long apprenticeship.

Elsie de Wolfe

Cooking for some is joy, for others a way to relax after a hectic day at work, and for a few, it’s purely a means to an end. Whatever your feelings are about cooking, it is so rewarding to see friends and family enjoy your food.

Chetna Makan

Cooking is about creating something delicious for someone else.

Ayumi Komura

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

Marcella Hazan