Rachel Khoo Quotes

I love my fish spatula so much. I don't have many specialty tools, but that's a favorite of mine.

Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.

The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

Even if you don't have any dishes, you need a celery dish.

At the restaurant, we strive to create an excellent experience for our guests, and in the kitchen, we could not do this without having access to the best ingredients, equipment and tools, including Victorinox Cutlery.

The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.

I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.

Eve: "She had big plans for me. Kind of a pet, I imagine. Like William. Her little trained dog. And with you dead, she figured I'd inherit all your goodies. You're not going to do that to me are you?" Roarke: "What, die?" Eve: "Leave me all this stuff." Roarke: "Only you would be annoyed by that.

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.” “That’s the best you can manage? That’s your bright, bold lie?” “Look, lady, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,” I snapped.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

We are always children to our mothers.

I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.