Cynthia Rowley Quotes

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

Cooking is like doing yoga. There is a lot of satisfaction in cooking food for others.

Like a musician expresses himself through music and a writer's expression is in his writings, cooking is my mode of expression.

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

Cooking is chemistry, really.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown.

I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.

Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.

Food has always been at the frontier of creativity.

I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.

I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Cooking well, with love, is an art.