Wylie Dufresne Quotes

Eggs are one of my all-time favorite foods, and making the over-easy egg is a test of skill.

I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.

I've been learning how to soft-scramble eggs. And once you've had an amazing soft-scrambled egg, you cannot go back. It takes a little bit more work, but they're really great.

I respect anybody that cooks. I know how hard it is.

I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

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

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

I can't cook.

Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.

I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded.

I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce, which takes four hours, from a recipe that's been refined over many years. I won't tell anybody what it is.

I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle.

My whole life, I have been trying to cook an egg in the right way.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

I do not cook.

I cook some damn good eggs!

I love to cook. I could never give that up.

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

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.

'Iron Chef America' is so real. Imagine putting on television the whole process of making that food, the technique. It's all about technique. It doesn't even matter if you show the faces sometimes.

Alan Arkin is a good cook.

I've never cooked a great meal.

I found that preparation is everything when you cook.

Cooking is about the ingredients and responding, but risotto, specifically, is about the technique.