#cooking

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. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#cooking #cooking show #food #food network #i

in the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious. ↗

— Bob Blumer

#culinary #wine #art

A yummy mummy is a dedicated and loving mom who embodies a healthy lifestyle while retaining a sense of the person she was before having kids. ↗

— Marina Delio

#inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes #parenting #parenting-with-grace #attitude

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer. ↗

— Lydia Davis

#cooking #cuisine #diet #food #foods

His dreams were full of bloodshed. He ran and ran, but wherever he fled, his mother's people and his father's people were in battle with each other. And then Shaftali and Sainnaite both turned on him crying out "No one of your heritage will ever cook for us!" "So what?" he replied, absurdly. "At the rate you're killing each other, there soon will be no one to cook for! ↗

— Laurie J. Marks

#dreams #war #dreams

I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from. ↗

— Aarti Sequeira

#american #any #channel #chicken #comes

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cooking #fragrance #humor #idealism #metaphors

Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes. ↗

— Julia Child

#humor #food

I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world. ↗

— M.F.K. Fisher

#food #love #food

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat. ↗

— Anastacia Oaikhena

#cooking #cuisine #culture #dining #food