Tom Colicchio Quotes

At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots.

I make more meals than most men do in a week.

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.

I don't cook very often. Actually, I'd go further: I can't cook.

I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

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.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.

As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't use that, I have exactly the right utensil.' After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I've become her.

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.

I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. I'm great at pasta, fish and nice salads.

My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though.

When I was at home, I always cooked, and I usually cook over all the holidays. I always used organic.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.