Rita Rudner Quotes

I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook.

A lot of my friends at home call me 'Chef G.'

I learned to cook by watching and helping my mother in the kitchen. I also learned by trial and error. Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted

I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

I enjoy watching talented cooks bringing together ingredients into a fabulous dish.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.

I hate to sound cliche, but I understand why people love to cook. It's fun!

At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelet of yours?

Cooking is about ingredients.

I love to cook, man, I'm the short-order cook of the house. It's also my creativity. The kitchen is my space. I'm always cooking, I'm always making something.

I cook as much as I eat, and I like the aroma that comes out of a kitchen.

If you eat broccoli steamed or boiled, it's not very exciting, but you can roast it with things like turmeric and make it amazing. It's all about how you cook something and what you pair it with.

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

I'd love to cook. It's something I've got into since I've grown older. I'm mates with Jamie Oliver and he's been a real inspiration. I've cooked for Jamie a few times - most people are too frightened to cook for him. Chefs are really easy to cook for. They're just pleased not to be the one who's cooking.

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!