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Cooking Quotes

"Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?"

Curly Howard, American Actor

"I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking."

James Beard, American Author

"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, American Celebrity

"I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants."

Delia Smith, British Entertainer

Cooking, End, Gardens, Restaurants

"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."

Julia Child, American Entertainer

"I don't believe in low-fat cooking."

Nigella Lawson, British Journalist

"I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is."

Mario Batali, American Celebrity

Cooking, Press, Will

"Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store."

Blake Lively, American Actress

"So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out."

Martin Yan, Chinese Celebrity

Cooking, Kids, Patience

"I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar."

Milo Ventimiglia, American Actor

Cooking, Kitchen

"My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes."

Alton Brown, American Entertainer

Cooking, Exploration, First, Talk

"I just get all jacked up when we start cooking."

Terry Kath, American Musician

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

Nigella Lawson, British Journalist

"The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy."

Nana Mouskouri, Greek Musician

Cooking, Day, Oil

"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."

Joely Fisher, American Actress

"I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking."

Liza Minnelli, American Actress

"I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel."

Dom DeLuise, American Actor

"I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking."

Robert Stack, American Actor

Cooking, First, France, Language

"I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys."

Martin Yan, Chinese Celebrity

Cooking, Fact, Tools

"I guess I fell into cooking."

Bobby Flay, American Celebrity

"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Cooking, Murder, Profession

"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight."

Delia Smith, British Entertainer

Cooking, Weight

"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, American Celebrity

Cooking, Fish, Words

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