All Quotes

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
‐‐ Robert Half

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.
‐‐ Levon Helm

Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.
‐‐ Richie Benaud

Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
‐‐ Bobby Flay

Cook what's fresh for the day. When you're using fresh fruits, vegetables, and foods, it's easier to keep the weight off. And I eat whatever I want - just not a ton of it.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
‐‐ Mario Batali

Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.
‐‐ Geoffrey Zakarian

Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.
‐‐ Ted Allen

Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
‐‐ Mary Berry

Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.
‐‐ Crescent Dragonwagon

Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
‐‐ Patrick Duffy

Cooking and film are completely different - but I'd rather stay in the kitchen than be in movies.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
‐‐ David Chang

Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Cooking can cure almost anything.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery

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

Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.
‐‐ Homaro Cantu

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up.
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis

Cooking for my family is always a pleasure when I'm able to do it. My favorite thing to make is really whatever my kids ask for on any given day. It's more about being with them and doing something together.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich

Cooking for my son is a challenge. I have to feed him right. He can't eat French fries and candy every day.
‐‐ Kym Whitley

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
‐‐ Ted Allen

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.
‐‐ Linda McCartney

Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It's stressful. Cooking happens on the stove and on the clock. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.
‐‐ Regina Brett

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.
‐‐ Gordon Ramsay

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.
‐‐ Steve Albini

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
‐‐ Nigella Lawson

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

Cooking is always very romantic!
‐‐ Matthew Morrison

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there's a huge nurturing element in it.
‐‐ Jade Jagger

Cooking is chemistry, really.
‐‐ Joel Robuchon

Cooking is exactly like making music.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
‐‐ Claudia Christian

Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.
‐‐ Laurie Colwin

Cooking is like fashion. Always, I like to try to change. If I'm traveling in a different country - to Australia, the Bahamas, Budapest, Moscow - and I see a new ingredient, I like to try it in a new dish.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
‐‐ Harriet Van Horne

Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.
‐‐ Laurie Colwin

Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
‐‐ Taylor Hicks

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
‐‐ Guy Fieri

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

Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
‐‐ Lauren Kate

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
‐‐ Adam Gopnik

'Cooking Lucky' is a show for guys - or girls - or really for anyone who is all thumbs in the kitchen and needs some help cooking meals that are so incredibly impressive they make it look like you've been slaving in the kitchen all day when in reality, they are so effortless to put together that even a moron can do it.
‐‐ Eden Riegel

Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me.
‐‐ Phillip Phillips

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.
‐‐ Gordon Ramsay