#cooking

Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes. ↗

— Alton Brown

#child #cold #collection #conveyed #cooking

My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes. ↗

— Alton Brown

#because #book #common #cooking #exploration

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be. ↗

— Alton Brown

#because #bird #cooking #cooks #evil

I guess I fell into cooking. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#fell #guess #i #into

I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I knew it in my mind, but now I know it in my heart. ↗

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter)

#food

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier. ↗

— Rebecca Loos

#cooking #days #food #happier #her

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world? ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #artsy #being-practical #cooking #creativity

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.' ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#chef #conform #cooking #create #dish

Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#bottle #by the time #cook #cooking #decide

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

— Julia Child

#food #attitude