Frances Mayes Quotes

Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things.

I wasn't the most confident of cooks, but I just persevered, and I wanted to learn, and I wanted to be a sponge, and I wanted to be better than the next person, and I wanted to learn as much as I could, so I just kept pushing, and it took me a long time actually to be confident in my technique and my ability as a cook.

Cooking is exactly like making music.

All are not cooks that walk with long knives.

You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.

Julia Child came to my house and wanted a lesson in making risotto.

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.

The way to do some things is to do them.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

[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.

I cook for a living; I'm not a scheduler.

I could not be more thrilled to be writing about the recipes I love and think are essential to any novice home cook, professional, and somewhere in between.

I enjoy learning how to cook because I like to eat. Eating is good. Eating is fun.

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

My wife, Donna, is a fantastic cook!

Being a cook, there's always pressure - not for your ego but for people to love your food.

I'm a good operator: good with food and good with math.

For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

I cook anything but chitlins.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.