Quotes about Cooking

Hospitality and cooking are my passion, and I love nothing more than seeing someone's face when they taste an unforgettable bite.

I'm always looking for new ways to create flavorful veggie dishes for my family.

Food strengthens my family bond while it nourishes my body.

Steaming is a great way to cook any firm fleshed fish, but it's often overlooked by the home cook.

He had the intellectual capacity of a louse, but shone in cooking up new ways to be cruel.

Often we eat squid fried, so it's fun to grill it for a change. To grill squid, slice the cleaned bodies open into two flat pieces and thread them, along with the tentacles, onto skewers, then grill quickly over a direct fire with the coals as close as possible to the grate, turning the squid several times.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.

You don't know what heat is until you cross the border from Texas to Louisiana in the summer. You can't come up with words that catch it. Trees give up. Turtles cook in their shells. Describe that if you know how.

Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."

Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

The kitchen was the center of our household. I spent all of my time there growing up.