Calvin Trillin Quotes

As a girl, I had zero interest in the stove. I've always had a healthy appetite, especially for the wonderful meat and the fresh produce of California, but I was never encouraged to cook and just didn't see the point in it.

I would like to help people cook more.

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

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.

I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.

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.

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 don't really cook much to be honest.

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

I'm not a good cook, unfortunately. I've tried a few times, but I don't like it too much.

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

When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster.

You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

I cook every day.

There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now.

Most of my education has been around food.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.

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

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'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.

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 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.

When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'