Kerry Greenwood Quotes

Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I'm using to cook.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

Go back to the kitchen.

I love my fish spatula so much. I don't have many specialty tools, but that's a favorite of mine.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.

I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

I do not cook.

To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

At the restaurant, we strive to create an excellent experience for our guests, and in the kitchen, we could not do this without having access to the best ingredients, equipment and tools, including Victorinox Cutlery.

The kitchen is the heart of our home.