Charlie Trotter Quotes

My mother was creative in the kitchen.

Recipes are overrated.

Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

I seriously love to cook... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid I used to help her make handmade pasta, Cavatelli and Ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something.

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?

When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

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.

God, Americans know how to cook.

I'm trying to keep my cooking approachable and accessible but with a little fun twist.

I like to make everything and I can really cook.

A lot of my friends at home call me 'Chef G.'

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

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

Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.

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

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.

My mom was a great cook and also a very creative cook.

One of my dad's biggest passions is cooking, so we always had good food at home.

On 'Sweet Genius,' you have to be tough with the chefs, but my goal was to guide them and choose the genius who will win $10,000 - not a bad sum at all for one day's work.