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Cooking Quotes
On family kitchens, music, and the craft of cooking.
These quotes cover cooking as both chore and craft—lessons learned young at home, music that makes the task lighter, and the dream of running a restaurant serving a specific regional cuisine. See our family quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a point of no return when you're cooking tomatoes. A little too much heat, a little too long in the pot, and you lose that sense of fresh ripeness that makes tomatoes so great.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was given a lot of homework: I had to practise ironing as a synth, practise washing up as a synth, cooking a meal as a synth. It's definitely the most prep I've had to do for a role.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy cooking, but I don't know... I just don't think I have enough skills to teach other people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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- Nov 07, 2020