Cooking Shows Quotes

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

You know what, I don't really watch a lot of cooking shows, but what's great about them is that it inspires a lot of the younger generation so, you know, with cooking shows and reality shows and the social media, I think it really makes our industry a hotter industry.

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show.

One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows.

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.

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

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.

Most of cooking is the labor of chopping. Give yourself a break. Pretend you're on a cooking show and have all your ingredients lined up for you.

North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.

If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.

I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made cooking seem much more complicated than it is, and part of that comes from watching cooking shows on television-we've turned cooking into a spectator sport. ...My wife and I both work, and we can get a very nice dinner on the table in a half hour. It would not take any less time for us to drive to a fast-food outlet and order, sit down, and bus our table.

I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project. The project that influenced me the most is this cooking show I do online. I film it all myself, and I think making so many of those gave me the confidence that all I need is a camera, and I could go and do an interview. The freedom to be a filmmaker - you just need a camera.

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

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

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. When I opened Spago, I had the kitchen in the dining hall. It was probably the first restaurant to do so. The dining scene became more casual. All these cooking shows have transformed our profession one-hundred percent.