When you cook food, you prepare it to be eaten by heating it in a particular way, such as baking or boiling, and when food cooks, it is heated until it is ready to eat. Profoundly inspirational cooking quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Cooking Quotes
You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. Paul Prudhomme
Cooking is like snow skiing If you don’t fall at least 10 times, then you’re not skiing hard enough. Guy Fieri
I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation. Madam Benoit
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
Cooking is an observation based process that you can’t do if you’re so completely focused on a recipe. Alton Brown
Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process, you can make adjustments as you go. Anne Burrell
Laughter is brightest where food is best.
When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. Laiko Bahrs
I feel a recipe is only a theme which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation. Madam Benoit
If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers. Linda Henley
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 get together to eat. Guy Fieri
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. Marcel Boulestin
I don’t cook for the guide, I cook for customers. Gordon Ramsay
Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food. Grant Achatz
Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy. Mary Berry
Food is a passion. Food is love. Hector Elizondo
Cooking is a philosophy; it’s not a recipe. Marco Pierre White
In the childhood memories of every good cook, there’s a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom. Barbara Costikyan
Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way that’s the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level. Jose Andres
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. Barbara Johnson
No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. Julia Child
Life is a combination of magic and pasta. Federico Fellini
Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with complete abandon or not at all. Harriet Van Horne
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what the hell attitude. Julia Child
Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. Craig Claiborne
Cooking with love provides food for the soul. Valerie McKeehan
Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal. Voltaire
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it. James Beard
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian, wine and tarragon make it French, sour cream makes it Russian, lemon and cinnamon make it Greek, soy sauce makes it Chinese, garlic makes it good. Alice May Brock
The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking love for those you are cooking for. Sophia Loren
Cuisine has become too complicated this is about subject, verb, adjective duck, turnips, sauce. Alain Ducasse
I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving. Christine Lagarde
The way you make an omelet reveals your character. Anthony Bourdain
Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for. David Chang
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. William Shakespeare
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W. C. Fields
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. Ernestine Ulmer
When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag. Russell Baker
People who love to eat are always the best people. Julia Child
I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture, I’d buy a painting. Andy Rooney
People want honest, flavorful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare. Ted Allen
I’m not a chef. But I’m passionate about food the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it. Zac Posen
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. John Gunther
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. Milton Glaser
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star. Anthelme Brillat Savarin
I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. Maya Angelou
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W C Fields
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way. Paul Theroux
I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever’s sharp. Wolfgang Puck
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
So when people ask me, What do you think of Michelin? I don’t cook for guides. I cook for customers. Gordon Ramsay
A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe. Thomas Keller
Invest in what’s real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn’t have to be complicated. Gwyneth Paltrow
Cooking is an observation based process that you can’t do if you’re so completely focused on a recipe. Alton Brown
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. Calvin Trillin
When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. Laiko Bahrs
Do not allow watching food to replace making food. Alton Brown
Cooking is about creating something delicious for someone else. Ayumi Komura
Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters. Gordon Ramsay
Food is not just eating energy. It’s an experience. Guy Fieri
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
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. Harriet Van Horne
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. Calvin Trillin
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
The greatest dishes are very simple. Auguste Escoffier
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there. Wolfgang Puck
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it’s more important to make yourself feel good. Ina Garten
I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. Maya Angelou
