Jamie Oliver Quotes

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

And, I believe that one of the most loving things you can do is prepare a meal for someone you love. None of which I know how to do!

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

I love to cook for people. It's my honor, honestly. It's what I have to give.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.

I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing.

I'm fascinated by food. Food is love, isn't it?

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.

That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

Creating a meal for somebody, it's a way to show your love.

How I show love has always been through food. That, for me, has been the foundation of how I express gratitude for anybody around me.

Cooking done with care is an act of love.

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.

I love to feed people, and I like to cook food they want to eat and food that will be good for them. I try to cook them things that are lower in fat and see if they will eat them.

Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

When I'm home, I cook. I love cooking for people.