Quotes on Cooking

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; and there we must abide, onefold, empty of ourselves, and free from images, lifted up by love into the simple bareness of our intelligence.

...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food.