Thomas Carlyle Quotes

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

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

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

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.

Patience is the secret to good food.

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

I learned so much from 'Iron Chef' about ingredients, about the courage to put yourself out there.

I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.

I love learning how to make new dishes.

I used to be a chef.

I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

I've cooked just about everything really.

It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don't like about it is it's a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.