Paula Poundstone Quotes

The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

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

It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than the people running these places around town.

I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to 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.

I found that preparation is everything when you cook.

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.

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

Recipes are overrated.

It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don't like about it is it's a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.

I cook every day.

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

I'm a normal guy. I'm not a chef.

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

I studied cooking all through high school.

I would love to do a cookery show and cookery books. I'm not a professional cook, but I can definitely cook. I know the difference between good and bad cooking. I mean, when I was in 'Big Brother' I was the glorified cook of the house, so if I got offered my own show - then why not?

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too.

I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

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.

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.