- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Momentum
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repeatedly opening the oven - or worse, taking out the turkey to baste it - slows down the momentum of cooking.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't be so hard on yourself. Make something simple a few times until you 'master' it and move on to the next thing. Take a cooking class! Buy a cookbook that specializes in foods or a cuisine you enjoy.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I look up a recipe for chicken and tomatoes and end up cooking pork. The inspiration gets lost in translation.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate. You can mix two styles and get fusion; any more, and you just get confusion.
- Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.
- Nov 07, 2020
I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.
- Meal
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only get fat when I eat food cooked by other chefs. At home, my wife does all the cooking. She makes simple things like soups and salads. We both like steamed tofu.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do most of the cooking in my head.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always did the cooking at home, and we always tried for balance. We've been vigilant about how and what our kids eat. For example, my son would just as soon go for the grapes as he would the chips... and the chips are baked.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020