Christina Tosi Quotes

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

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

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

I'm interested in food and sharing my passion with a community of like-minded people. All of the celebrity stuff that comes along with that is just an incidental byproduct of being able to do what I love for a living.

I think anyone can bake, but I don't think I can bake well. I sort of feel like baking is just, like, chocolate and butter and sugar, and that is always nice, so I think anyone can bake, you can put those things together, and it will come out all right. The next level of that, I definitely can't do.

I'm going to work on food culture and help food become fun and part of peoples' lives again. The traditional restaurant is more commercial-oriented. But I want community through food.

I've always been very open about how my mother taught me to cook and how I'm delighted to share my family's recipes.

I would say, probably 7 or 8 years into my cooking career, it stopped being about just food for me. Food's really fun, but I've always been about people, and I realized that food is just a really convenient tool for me to connect people and bring them together.

When you taste something delicious, ask for the recipe! Or offer to trade a recipe!

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.

Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.

I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread.

Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there's a huge nurturing element in it.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

I'm a very bad baker.

I love cooking and baking.

I feel fortunate to be part of the cooking community. We learn from each other.

Cooking is the best occupational therapy for me. And when I cook, everybody comes to eat. It's the greatest thing.

Gastronomy has done more to bring together people of the world than any guns ever could.