Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. — Craig Claiborne
Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks. — Judith Jones
I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done. — Devon Werkheiser
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood. — Barbara Kingsolver
Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe. — Linda McCartney
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food. — Craig Claiborne
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child
I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili. — Joely Fisher
For a two-job working family, a pressure cooker gets a meal on the table in seven to 15 minutes, start to finish. — Steven Gundry
Knowing thousands of recipes doesn’t feed you, unless you start cooking. — Leo Babauta
I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast. — Ethel Merman
My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. — Carol Alt
I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time. — Gail Simmons
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. — Harriet Van Horne
Short Cooking Dinner Quotes
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. — Julia Child
Are you casting asparagus on my cooking? — Curly Howard
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for. — Sophia Loren
I'm sautéing emcees with fried rice up in the wok without the MSG and chopped celery. — Redman
Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal. — Emeril Lagasse
God will provide the food, but he will not cook the dinner. — Thomas Troward
...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. — Julia Child
When I have dinner, I get off my phone, smell my food, and chew it well. — Hannah Bronfman
I make lots of casseroles that have protein, veggies, carbs and good fats all together. — Tori Spelling
Cooking Dinner Image Quotes
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.
Simple Dinner Quotes
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. — Sayings
I don't always prepare such rich meals. Sometimes I'll just serve a simple quiche, salad and dessert for dinner. During the week I try to eat lightly. — Paul Lynde
When it comes to romance, I'm really simple. I am really a 'dinner and a movie' type of person, and I love food, so surprise me and order something different or adventurous when it comes to food, and I'm like a kid at Halloween. — Sasha Grey
I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentines Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better. — Spencer Boldman
Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both. — Michelle Obama
I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someone is to have a conversation over dinner. And steak houses have a nice atmosphere - the lights are dim, and they usually have a band playing. — Kevin Durant
Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work. — Giorgio Armani
I've gotten it down to one hour. If dinner takes me longer than an hour to prepare, then it is too complicated. So it has to be simple. — Sharon Gannon
When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds. We did it before dinner at 5 o'clock. Then when dinnertime comes, they've already eaten vegetables. — Andie MacDowell
We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab frozen dinners and McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine. — Nicole Ari Parker
Dinner Food Quotes
I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be. — Meek Mill
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. — Adelle Davis
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. — M. F. K. Fisher
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet. — Judith Martin
Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table but all day long. — Phil Robertson
All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99 — Lord Byron
What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel? — Sayings
I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC. — Wyclef Jean
There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves. — Thomas Wolfe
Eating Dinner Quotes
Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. — Ronald Reagan
I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. — Hugh Hefner
We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?' — K. D. Lang
I feel like I would be a good stalker... F*ck yeah, I'd watch your whole damn family eat dinner, boy! — Theo Von
We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday. — Michelle Obama
The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.' — Marie-Antoine Careme
In an ideal world, I’m eating dinner at home before I have a DJ gig. — Hannah Bronfman
If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then
explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for
us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat? — Sarah Palin
I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good. — Chris Kirkpatrick
You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends. — Pamela Des Barres
Dinner Time Quotes
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. — Henny Youngman
So I have no time for short-term things: dinners with people I won’t see again, tedious ceremonies to please tedious people, traveling to places that I wouldn’t go to on vacation. — Naval Ravikant
And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner. — Tom Hanks
More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject. — Peter Drucker
You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner! — Stephen Colbert
In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner. — Barry Goldwater
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. — Erma Bombeck
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. — Erma Bombeck
Cooking Quotes
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook. — Chinua Achebe
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine. — Marco Pierre White
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. — Charlemagne
If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe. — Paul Bocuse
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — E. O. Wilson
Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke. — Tupac Shakur
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook. — Auren Hoffman
There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago. — Lewis Grizzard
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. — Thomas Keller
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking. — Fats Domino
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. — Marcel Boulestin
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him. — Edward Hallett Carr
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. — Joan Dye Gussow
I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing. — Aziz Ansari
You will find that living in space can actually become a home, in spite of tools floating away. Alien to all you know, you will adapt and you will love it. — Peggy Whitson
Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos. — Don Kardong
I’ve always liked home-cooked meals. — Kawhi Leonard
Family Dinner Quotes
Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business. — Jared Kushner
Whether it’s in the office or around the family dinner table, don’t avoid honest, clear conflict. It will get you the best car price, the higher salary, and the largest donation. It will also save your marriage, your friendship, and your family. — Chris Voss
I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco. — Dave Grohl
A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family. — Tommy Hilfiger
The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery. — Judith Martin
I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together. — Gwyneth Paltrow
I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. — Tina Yothers
Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates. — Sue Grafton
We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way. — Ann Druyan
Preparing Food Quotes
Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions. — Michio Kushi
If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony. — Fernand Point
It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The key to good health is not just about what you eat, but also about when you eat and how you prepare your food. — Steven Gundry
I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food. — Jenna Fischer
Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating. — Joel Salatin
He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. — Calvin Trillin
The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the cup, the wine of astonishment, like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food, did the Lord prepare to be my portion. — Mary Rowlandson
Cooking And Eating Quotes
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. — Epicurus
So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else." — Brian Yorkey
Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. — Samuel Johnson
The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison — Ann Wigmore
The people who give you their food give you their heart. — Cesar Chavez
Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating. — Yotam Ottolenghi
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. — Luciano Pavarotti
People who love to eat are always the best people. — Julia Child
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do. — P. J. O'Rourke
Christmas Dinner Quotes
Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. — Shel Silverstein
The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice. — Jim Butcher
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. — Peter Agre
On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner. — John Nettles
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. — Miranda Cosgrove
I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone. — Christopher Moore
You know you've had too much to eat for Christmas dinner when you slump down onto a beanbag and realize... there is no beanbag. — David Letterman
Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982. — Lesley Nicol
My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours. — Busy Philipps
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. — E. O. Wilson
But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more. — Juana Inés de la Cruz
It follows from this that time management broadly defined should be everyone’s chief concern. Arguably time management is all life is, yet the modern discipline known as time management - like its hipper cousin, productivity - is a depressingly, narrow minded affair focused on how to crank through as many work tasks as possible, or on devising the perfect morning routine, or in cooking all your dinners for the week in one big batch on Sundays. These things matter to some extent, no doubt, but they’re hardly all that matters. The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru, who seems to have considered the possibility that the ultimate point of all our frenetic doing, might be to experience more of that wonder. — Oliver Burkeman
...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew. — Dick Gregory
I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner. — Ben Savage
I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat. — Casey Neistat
My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup. — Katharine Weymouth
I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner. — Curtis Stone
It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it? — Amy Winehouse
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner. — Lord Chesterfield
I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them. — Rodney Dangerfield
Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen. — Woody Allen
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. — Thomas Wolfe
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste. — Wes Smith
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways. — Isabella Beeton
[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down. — Virginia Woolf
Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff, conversation, appreciation, romance. All the most important things in life you do around a dinner table. — Curtis Stone
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. — Anthony Jeselnik
I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef. — Martin Yan
I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome. — Samuel Pepys
I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed. — Angie Stone
Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself. — Waverley Root
a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free. — Carl Honore
What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways. — Isabella Beeton
People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows. — Carol Burnett
It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question. — Kate Winslet
I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I wasn't going out for a business dinner. — Isla Fisher
I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests. — Prabal Gurung
I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals. — Mark Mothersbaugh
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