Roberta Smith Quotes

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

I'm not much of a chef, so people keep buying me cookery books to broaden my culinary horizons, but I've not got far past shepherd's pie yet.

Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, they're not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

I know my way around the kitchen. I like to cook, so I can fry an egg. I guess I could be a fry cook at Bob's Big Boy or something, or maybe a sous chef somewhere a little nicer. I would like to do that. I think I can probably pick that up pretty quickly.

I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network, but I don't like to cook.

I studied cooking all through high school.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

I don't cook, but I would love to learn.

Every once in a while, I want to get up and cook.

If you want to be a home cook, just have fun with it. Pick up a couple cookbooks. You're gonna make some mistakes; just go in and try it.

When I left restaurants, I had to learn to be a home cook.

I just love to look at cookbooks, it's almost like they're comic books for me. I can't look at them before bed; it gets me too excited.

Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and 'Cooks' Questions' is for those people who want to find out more.

A couple of my friends told me to get into cooking but I have not been able to get myself into the kitchen.

I've cooked just about everything really.

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

I don't consider myself a food person. I'm no Bobby Flay. I'm no Emeril or Paula Deen, and I'm certainly not Rachael Ray.

Most of my education has been around food.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

I've never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.

Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.