Cooking Quotes

"I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly."

"I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking."

"I only cook when I'm in love."

"I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot."

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

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

Craig Claiborne

"No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past."

Laurie Colwin

“Some of the best kitchen discoveries come about through total kitchen disasters.”

“I personally love grilling, but it's a 15- to 20-minute commitment in entertaining.”

“I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.”

“I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.”

“I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food.”

“My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.”

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

“Best way to get rid of kitchen odours: eat out.”

“If I'm cooking, I feel like I'm in control of my life.”

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

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”

Ludwig van Beethoven

“Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together.”

Guy Fieri

“When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.”

“The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics.”

Alton Brown

“I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.”

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

Julia Child

“No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.”

Julia Child

“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”

Anthony Bourdain