Alice Dreger Quotes

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

I love to cook. My mom taught me to cook at a very, very young age.

I grew up in a household where we cooked all the time. My mom cooked all the time; my dad cooked. My grandmothers cooked. I have memories of sitting on the counter and snapping green beans with my grandmother.

My mom's always been a good cook, so I took a lot of stuff from her, but most of the stuff I took from Emeril or Bobby Flay right off the TV and make it. I just loved to cook, so it just became a thing. It's a release. Even if I'm alone, I'll cook a full meal, maybe even a two-course meal, just because I love to cook. It's my secret love!

I guess I fell into cooking.

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

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

I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.

I love to cook. It is a simple pastime.

I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

I wasn't a great cook, but I was a passionate one.

When I was younger, my dad taught me how to cook. He's a genius in the kitchen. I went to Vietnam with my parents, and I went on a cooking course with him.

I would like to help people cook more.

I quite like cooking, but not to the extent that I look on a kitchen as a domain.

The kitchen was the center of our household. I spent all of my time there growing up.

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.

I'd like to see kids learning to cook and families sitting down to dinner together.

You'll never see me on anything like 'MasterChef.' I'm just not interested.

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

It's tough to eat well if you don't know how to cook.

Generally, I cook from the soul and measure by eye, throwing in this and that along the way. But I want to be a certified chef. That's one of my goals.