Samin Nosrat Quotes

For me, I am very much a champion of home cooking and home cooks.

Regrettably, people today don't watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.

Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife's cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning.

It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night.

I like being at home and cooking.

I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

My mom has a rare talent for being able to open up the refrigerator, and with the peas, the leftover eggs, the cream, the spinach, the cheese, and a little rice, she can just whip up incredible risotto.

They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

We try to eat at home four or five days a week.

I love being at home and creating in the kitchen.

I am a foodie, but I prefer to be at home and enjoy home-cooked food.

Normally, I like to eat at home. We don't go out much. The food at home is so good.

Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.

Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

Sunday night I always cook if I can - if I'm home, I always cook.

The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.

I'm sick of all these boring cooking shows.

I've had an untraditional trajectory with food: I was in my mom's home, then I was a college kid making mac and cheese and quesadillas, and then I was a professional cook. I never had that time where you figure out how to cook for yourself at home.

I rarely eat outside.

If you're cooking at home, you'll eat healthier, and when you add family and friends into the mix, it enriches your social life, too.