Jamie Oliver Quotes

The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.

Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.

I watch the Food Network with my kids. We - yeah, I - I - I generally don't admit that, but I love cooking.

I have no formal culinary training, right.

I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

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

All the women in my family were superb cooks.

I could not be more thrilled to be writing about the recipes I love and think are essential to any novice home cook, professional, and somewhere in between.

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

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.

'My Family Recipe Rocks' is on the Live Well Network, and we go to people's homes and watch them cook.

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

The album 'Kelis Was Here' sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What's great about food is that it's less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you're any good.

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.

Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition.

My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We're trying to give our kids a sense of what's going into their bodies, and it's also good for family time.

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

I love to cook. My mom taught me to cook at a very, very young age.

My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.

Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me.

I love doing 'Worst Cooks' so very much.