Nigella Lawson Quotes

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

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.

You can love food without being a cook. Equally, you can love food and be a very good cook.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

Anyone can cook, and most everyone should.

I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

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.

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

I'm not a cook. I don't think I ever will be.

I've never been a great cook.

My grandfather was a great chef.

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

All are not cooks that walk with long knives.

I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.

I can chop and peel vegetables but can't cook full meals.

I can cook anything. Anything. I'm good.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.