Cooking Quotes - Page 20

• I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.

  Serena Williams

  Mom, Class, Kitchen

  Source: www.bonappetit.com

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

  Michael Strahan

  Way, Chef, Compliment

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• The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Real, Differences, United States

  Gertrude Atherton (2014). “Senator North”, p.103, The Floating Press

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• Yes, as a people we are spoiled. We look for dinners that take two minutes to cook in our microwave instead of five, and we audibly sigh if the directions on the box require us to stir at the halfway point. Aw, I gotta stir? See what else is in the freezer.

  Martha Bolton

  Two, People, Looks

  Martha Bolton (2003). “I Think, Therefore, I Have a Headache!: A Laugh-Out-Loud Look at Life”, Bethany House Pub

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• Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.

  Jo Coudert

  White, People, Chocolate

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• It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried out, you can hardly go wrong.

  Jo Coudert

  Burning, Ruins, Chickens

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• Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Use, Helping, Instruction

  "World Chefs: Geoffrey Zakarian Dishes on Must-have Ingredients in New Book". Interview with Richard Leong, www.reuters.com. November 18, 2014.

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• I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Kitchen, Ease, Hospitality

  "World Chefs: Geoffrey Zakarian Dishes on Must-have Ingredients in New Book". Interview with Richard Leong, uk.reuters.com. November 18, 2014.

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• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  Carla Hall

  Creativity, People, Mind

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• My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

  Brenda Song

  Growing Up, Dad, Ideas

  "Brenda Song - The NEW Interview". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. October 29, 2007.

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• I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Girl, Home, Simple

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

  Colm Meaney

  Home, Cents

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• I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and Im a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Nice, Italian, Bangs

  "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.

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• I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

  Grant Achatz

  New York, Wish, Food Trucks

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• I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

  Akshay Kumar

  Imagination, Sticks, Rely

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• Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Fire, Boston, Order

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

  David Chang

  Reading, Math, Discipline

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• 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.

  Nadine Velazquez

  Husband, Hot, Arms

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• As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

  Leon Krier

  Love Life, Creativity, Things In Life

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.24, Papadakis Publisher

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• Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesnt mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now youre cooking.

  Tom Colicchio

  Home, Mean, Trying

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• If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.

  Michael Pollan

  Calories, Ifs

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• One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Skills, California, Students

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• There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.

  Kimberly Schlapman

  Grandmother, Pie, Southern

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I always get so excited cooking chicken wings.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Wings, Excited, Chickens

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• In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.

  Toshiko Takaezu

  Vegetables, Differences, Giving

  Toshiko Takaezu, Felice Fischer, Darrel Sewell (2004). “The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu”, ACC Distribution

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