Sophie Dahl Quotes

My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too.

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.

I like to make everything and I can really cook.

I've cooked just about everything really.

Recipes are overrated.

Since I was about seven, I've loved cooking. I'd wake up at five in the morning and make cinnamon rolls and all these different things.

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

I've got around 400 cookbooks.

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 would say to someone, 'Make your own stuff sooner.' Also, it's OK to say no to something if it doesn't feel right.

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

I love cooking and baking.

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

I'm the queen of the independent video!

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.

I had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.

I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

The kids are really great at baking cupcakes, cookies, of course - that kind of stuff - but I love delegating responsibilities for dinner so you have them picking herbs, or I have plastic knives for them so they're learning sort of how to chop. It's pretty great.