Quotes on Cooking

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

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.