Tom Junod Quotes

I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.

I'm trying to learn how to cook.

I can chop and peel vegetables but can't cook full meals.

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.

Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.

The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

I don't cook, but I would love to learn.

I cook chicken for a living.

I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than the people running these places around town.

If you want to be a home cook, just have fun with it. Pick up a couple cookbooks. You're gonna make some mistakes; just go in and try it.

I am learning cooking... all my mother's recipes.

When I left restaurants, I had to learn to be a home cook.

Cooking is physical; it's easier to learn than playing golf. You chop food, you pan fry it - what else is there to it?

I would like to help people cook more.

I'm not a good cook, unfortunately. I've tried a few times, but I don't like it too much.

I've never cooked a great meal.

I found that preparation is everything when you cook.

You've got to be in your kitchens, or it all falls apart.