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
Cheering Good Cook quotations
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

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


I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South.
From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground.
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison
When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea.
And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
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.
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.

People who love to eat are always the best people.
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.
So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.
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.

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.
The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.
I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll make you a good chicken pot pie.
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans .
.. are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.