Alice Waters Quotes

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can't make anything.

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

I don't cook very often. Actually, I'd go further: I can't cook.

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.

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

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

The way to get to like good food is by learning to cook, which is why I'm for ever banging on about children learning to cook.

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'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

I'm not sure if I can cook. I probably can. But I'm really good at cajoling anybody around me to cook for me.

Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

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 still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.