Padma Lakshmi Quotes

I'm passionate about cooking. I'm passionate about healthy eating. I'm passionate about inspiring other women.

I've always been a great collector and lover of cookbooks.

My grandchildren love cooking, and it doesn't have to be sweet things.

I don't really cook.

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

I prefer eating to cooking.

I would definitely be interested in doing a cooking show or something related to cooking, and I think probably most immediately, I would do a cookbook.

I love to feed people, and I like to cook food they want to eat and food that will be good for them. I try to cook them things that are lower in fat and see if they will eat them.

I've got around 400 cookbooks.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.

The most essential part of my day is a proper dinner.

I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.

I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away.

Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

I love cooking and baking.

I'm trying to learn how to cook.

I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.

I eat well. I don't really, I guess, like, steam my own food and cook my own food in advance. I enjoy food, but I just don't make bad decisions.

The older I get, the more interested in good meals I am.

I've always loved to cook, and then my love of it just grew as I got older and started traveling and started entertaining.

Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved.

I love cookbooks. I collect them.

Food is a big part of my life.

Food is a part of life. People are foodies and love to shop for food.