Sally Schneider Quotes

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

No one's born a good cook. You have to learn and practice.

I did a show a long, long time ago called 'Cooking Mexican'. It was a studio show as opposed to on-location like the one I do now. Before my first show, I was a cooking instructor, and I did a whole lot of classes for home cooks about Mexican food.

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

I have always loved food. I began cooking for my family as a young girl, and to this day, it's one of my greatest pleasures in life.

People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, they're not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.

I'm not a strong cook. I can do the crockpot; that's about it.

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

There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home.

I really feel I have found myself as a chef. It's very clear to me what I want to do - and how it should taste.

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.

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.

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.

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

I would like to help people cook more.

A couple of my friends told me to get into cooking but I have not been able to get myself into the kitchen.

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.

I love to cook. My mom taught me to cook at a very, very young age.