Quotes about Cooks

The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans. Votes: 5

Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession. Votes: 3

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. Votes: 3

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. Votes: 3

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook. Votes: 3

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. Votes: 3

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat. Votes: 3

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. Votes: 3

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. Votes: 3

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. Votes: 3

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. Votes: 3

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. Votes: 3

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. Votes: 3

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. Votes: 3

We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks. Votes: 3

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. Votes: 3

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires. Votes: 3

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun! Votes: 3

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself. Votes: 3

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. Votes: 3

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. Votes: 3

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago. Votes: 3

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens. Votes: 3

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. Votes: 3

I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it. Votes: 3

After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going against Bobby Flay takes the challenge to another level, but I'm ready to whip these contestants into shape and the winner is sure to be from Team Burrell. Votes: 3

Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar. Votes: 3

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. Votes: 3

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. Votes: 2

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts. Votes: 2

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. Votes: 2

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? Votes: 2

Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others. Votes: 2

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. Votes: 2

If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood. Votes: 2

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. Votes: 2

I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home. Votes: 2

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood. Votes: 2

It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night. Votes: 2

My wife is a terrific Southern cook. My favorite of all the great things she cooks is 'trash potatoes.' That's mashed potatoes with sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, and horseradish. It's a total gut bomb. Votes: 2

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. Votes: 2

In my household, everything happens in the kitchen. My parents have this pretty big home, and it doesn't matter how big it is, we will all squeeze ourselves in the kitchen and just chat while my mom or dad cooks. Votes: 2

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars. Votes: 2

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded. Votes: 2

My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband! Votes: 2

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking. Votes: 2

I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories. But when I'm at home, I eat what my wife cooks for me. She works hard to avoid making foods that are high in calories and cholesterol, so most of the time, she makes vegetarian dishes. Votes: 2

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. Votes: 2

Guess what the Redskins have? You know, I take the bus to the games, we park in the parking lot where the visiting team parks. So I go out there after the game and they have a food truck there! And the guy comes over and he cooks food for the Redskins, and they come out to the parking lot before they get on the bus and they go to the food truck! Votes: 2

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison. Votes: 1

Passion cooks. Reason cleans. Votes: 0

No one who cooks cooks alone. Votes: 0

Too many cooks spoil the broth Votes: 0

God made food; the devil the cooks. Votes: 0

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks Votes: 0

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals. Votes: 0

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. Votes: 0

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence. Votes: 0

All the women in my family were superb cooks. Votes: 0

What do men want? Men want a mattress that cooks. Votes: 0

cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers ... Votes: 0

Sometimes shows suffer from having many cooks in the kitchen. Votes: 0

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. Votes: 0

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks. Votes: 0

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks. Votes: 0

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. Votes: 0

I live to eat - when someone else cooks for me. Votes: 0

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth. Votes: 0

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. Votes: 0

There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics. Votes: 0

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family. Votes: 0

[On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat. Votes: 0

Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first. Votes: 0

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks. Votes: 0

My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though. Votes: 0

An ugly woman cooks your meals on time, and she'll always treat you kind. Votes: 0

I love quinoa. It's great, it cooks like rice and is better than caviar. Votes: 0

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. Votes: 0

So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks. Votes: 0

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. Votes: 0

Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation. Votes: 0

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English. Votes: 0

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera. Votes: 0

Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world. Votes: 0

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks. Votes: 0

You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips. Votes: 0

I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff. Votes: 0

Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story? Votes: 0

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend. Votes: 0

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine. Votes: 0

If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out. Votes: 0

we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration. Votes: 0

Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. Votes: 0

I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better....but you're lazier. Votes: 0

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. Votes: 0

If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do. Votes: 0

I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way. Votes: 0

Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food. Votes: 0

Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food. Votes: 0

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer. Votes: 0

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. Votes: 0

Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that. Votes: 0

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. Votes: 0

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.' Votes: 0

G-Dragon's music is like sushi. It's sophisticated and has different flavors. His music also changes depending on how much he cooks it. Votes: 0

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore. Votes: 0

The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art. Votes: 0

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets. Votes: 0

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. Votes: 0

Remember! When you tell a woman that she cooks something very good; you will be fucked by eating it three times a day. Votes: 0

Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept. Votes: 0

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is. Votes: 0

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties. Votes: 0

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard. Votes: 0

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids. Votes: 0

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks. Votes: 0

When my girlfriend cooks dinner, I'm happy to do the dishes. Because I make her wash dishes when I take her to a restaurant. Votes: 0

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do. Votes: 0

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out. Votes: 0

The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix. Votes: 0

You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike. Votes: 0

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen. Votes: 0

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything. Votes: 0

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking. Votes: 0

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot. Votes: 0

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot. Votes: 0

Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom. Votes: 0

I ate, boy. Early this morning. Some awful fish soup. The cooks should be hanged for that. No one should face fish first thing in the morning. Votes: 0

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun. Votes: 0

I own the restaurant. There are a lot of cooks, waiters and waitresses in this restaurant. They worry about their problems. I worry about all the problems. Votes: 0

I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off. Votes: 0

Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of the new, modern chef is different. Votes: 0

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients. Votes: 0

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks. Votes: 0

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts. Votes: 0

Young chefs, famous chefs, home cooks, and everyone who loves food and cooking-we all depend on Larousse Gastronomique. It is the only culinary encyclopedia that is always up-to-date. Votes: 0

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman. Votes: 0

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters. Votes: 0

Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see. Votes: 0

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. Votes: 0

In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York. Votes: 0

Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one's fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in two short words: bust ass. Votes: 0

What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers. Votes: 0

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home. Votes: 0

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell. Votes: 0

I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes. Votes: 0

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown! Votes: 0

Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders, and so on and so forth. Votes: 0

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories. Votes: 0

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language. Votes: 0

I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career. Votes: 0

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not. Votes: 0

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. Votes: 0

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.' Votes: 0

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person. Votes: 0

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking. Votes: 0

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track. Votes: 0

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut. Votes: 0

I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks. Votes: 0

Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore. Votes: 0

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence. Votes: 0

There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets. Votes: 0

I like cooking the biggest steaks. It cooks nice and evenly when it's that thick, and you're not eating the whole thing yourself, which is nice. You get to share that with a companion. Votes: 0

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food Votes: 0

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food. Votes: 0

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink. Votes: 0

The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. Votes: 0

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg. Votes: 0

People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over. Votes: 0