Alice Waters Quotes

Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.

Cooking well, with love, is an art.

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.

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.

If it tastes really good, and it's funky, it's funkalicous. If the guy making it is funky, he's funkintacious.

I love to cook, and I've just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it's the best way to stay creative.

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

If you want to be a home cook, just have fun with it. Pick up a couple cookbooks. You're gonna make some mistakes; just go in and try it.

I like to make everything and I can really cook.

Food has always been at the frontier of creativity.

Cooking is, to me, the perfect fusion of generosity and selfishness, indeed the resolution of generosity and selfishness, the answer to my torn nature.

I love to cook, man, I'm the short-order cook of the house. It's also my creativity. The kitchen is my space. I'm always cooking, I'm always making something.

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

I don't have any specialties. Anything I cook, I just make it special.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

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.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

Possibly I want to bring my acting into the cooking, blending the two together. What I love is cooking for other people and seeing them enjoy what I have created for them. And same thing goes for acting. I have even tried to make some Chinese dishes before. It's very difficult. That's probably why eating at authentic Chinese restaurants is part of my journey here.