Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

Mastering one recipe is better than mastering too many. Learn something and own it, and you'll feel so much better about it. You'll have more confidence if you've made it five times, and that confidence adds so much fun to cooking.

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

I'm a good cook, I am not a great cook. I'm an absolute fraud.

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

Chef Michel Richard is always at the top of his game.

Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

Before I had my own restaurant, I was never top dog in the kitchen. I've always had a low opinion of myself as a cook.

You want to be the baddest guy in the kitchen and you want the person next to you to know it.

I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.

No one makes better scrambled eggs than me.

I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I'm very proud of my gravy.

You don't call yourself the Demon Chef by being gentle. I am tough.

I've always said I'm pretty good at making mashed potato. I'm a good masher.

I really think I cook good Korean food. I really do, just straight up.

I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made.

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.

When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.