Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form.

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

I know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically.

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

All chefs have pictures of food in their phones, stuffed pig's ears and pigs' heads and the like.

We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.

Now don't get me wrong, I love animals, but I like eatin' 'em more... fun to pet, better to chew.

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

In the grand scheme of nature, I believe that it is very natural that animals eat animals, and that humans eat animals. It is only in the last couple of decades that meat-processing factories have come to rise, and I believe we should take time to reflect on that reality.

I'm really glad my food comes murdered.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth.

I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself being resentful of the idea; "Now you will make a good wife. You can cook, right?" So when people ask me I go, "No, I don't like cooking!"

[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

Tether even a roasted chicken.

I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.