Cooks - Cooking Quotes

Do not overdo what has already been overdone.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

Martha Stewart, cooking on television with Julia Child, couldn’t stop correcting Julia’s work. She quietly picked, picked, picked away at this and that, and Julia Child, in her inimitable, breezy way, just let the criticisms float by. Julia Child, for all the years of complaints about her technique, has never failed to express her firm […]

There is only one thing more expensive than a wife who can cook and won’t and that’s a wife that can’t cook and will.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat.

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man can not live without cooks. He may live without books, – what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope – what is hope […]