Cooks Quotes - Page 11

• Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

  Michael Pollan

  Long, Junk, Want

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.7, Penguin

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• My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

  Julian Castro

  Mother, Brother, Children

  Julian Castro's keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Sushi, Sauce

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• In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a woman who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Firsts, Lawyer, Prison

  "Iran Awakening - An Interview With Shirin Ebadi". Interview with Brian Shott, news.newamericamedia.org. May 20, 2006.

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• Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Sex, Nice, Mean

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• I own the restaurant. There are a lot of cooks, waiters and waitresses in this restaurant. They worry about their problems. I worry about all the problems.

  Mack Brown

  Worry, Problem, Waitress

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• Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.

  Julia Child

  Art, Differences, Cooking

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.30, Knopf

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• What's up?" Christian asked. "Need some hairstyling tips?" "Tips you stole from me? No thanks. But I hear you've got a really good bacon meatloaf recipe." It was worth it then and there to see his complete and total surprise. "Since when do you cook?" he finally managed to stammer. "Oh, you know. I'm a Renaissance man. I do it all. Send it if you've got it, and I'll give it a try. I'll let you know if I make any improvements." His smirk returned. "Are you trying to impress a girl?" "With cooking?" I pointed at my face. "This is all it takes, Ozera.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Christian, Men

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• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Two, Squares, Long

  "Microsoft's Former CTO Takes on Modernist Cuisine" by Mark McClusky, www.wired.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Grandma, Water, Interesting

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• The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Cooking, Mind, Digital

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• When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Mother, Book, Home

  "Can I Eat That?". Interview with David Pogue, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2012.

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• I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

  Rachel Nichols

  Know How, Knows

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• I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Sweet, Two, Three

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

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• I learned to cook by watching and helping my mother in the kitchen. I also learned by trial and error. Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

  Nina Dobrev

  Mother, Errors, Risk

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Touching, Mind, Helping

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• 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 cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

  Nora Ephron

  Marriage, Cooking, Looks

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.135, Vintage

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• There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan

  Stephenie Meyer

  Swans, Law, House

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• I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

  Jack Kerouac

  Country, Home, Fire

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.118, Penguin

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• let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.

  Jodi Picoult

  Regret, Grief, Angel

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• You're a terrible cook, Daniel." "I know," he replied, "But it's the effort that counts." "I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.

  Lisa Lutz

  Practice, Effort, Dental

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• She wandered over to the enclosed range, a rather modern-looking contraption that Cook had purchased earlier in the year. "Do you know how to work this?" she asked. "No idea. You? " Daphne shook her head. "None." She reached forward and gingerly touched the surface of the stove top. "It's not hot. " " Not even a little bit? " She shook her head. "It's rather cold, actually. " Brother and sister were silent for a few seconds . " You know," Anthony finally said, "cold milk might be quite refreshing ." " I was just thinking that very thing!

  Julia Quinn

  Brother, Thinking, Years

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• The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

  Aristotle

  Judging, Guests

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Want me to warm up the sauce?” “Do we do that? I mean, it’s in a jar, right? Can’t you just dump it over the pasta?” “Well, you can, but it tastes better if you warm it up.” “Oh.” Eve sighed. “This is complicated. No wonder I never cook.

  Rachel Caine

  Mean, Pasta, Want

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.37, Penguin

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• I'll cook the water.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Water

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.347, Scholastic Inc.

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