Chefs Cooking Quotes

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

No one who cooks cooks alone.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Food is life, life is food. If you don't like my approach you are welcome to go down to McDonalds.

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.

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

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

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

Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Cooking done with care is an act of love.

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