Plutarch Quotes

The only thing I've cooked while entertaining is stir-fry.

I feel like I can teach anyone to cook a dinner.

When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He makes amazing omelets, fish, and grilled vegetables like Brussels sprouts and cauliflower.

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.

No American officer was a proven commander when we entered the First Word War I…. No one had ever commanded a large body of troops. General Pershing, who was selected, had only commanded a brigade in the Mexican war.

I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook.

I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.

Today, we should look for people with great organizational skills to run a government - not just leaders, who are good with people.

That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.

I love cooking. There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. Anything with pasta! Pasta with butter! I have a good repertoire, and I can do quite a few different dishes. Sometimes they work out and sometimes not.

As a chef, I got into this because I love the creative energy and I love the science, but I also love to feed people and make them happy.

You have to give the soldiers, the Army, a clear vision.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

When anybody is just starting the process of cooking, I always say it takes practice, and nobody got to be a great cook on their first try.

I think if you want to be a successful president or a manager of a team, you need to understand what the business is all about because you have to deal with the business side of the game to be able to do what you need to do.

Cooking is like doing yoga. There is a lot of satisfaction in cooking food for others.

Cooking is not effortless. To get a recipe that feels effortless is really hard.

Chefs love to have that control and power to control the message they want to deliver.

If we have friends over for dinner, I do the cooking. I like the pressure of a big meal and the technical challenges of a roast.

You've got to demonstrate you're capable of developing policies but, more importantly, you're capable of implementing them.