Quotes on Cooking

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life — every aspect of it. So, in some ways, the thought of not being able to do that anymore radically affects your life.

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.