Irina Shayk Quotes

My abuela was an incredible cook.

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

Most of my food memories are of my Nan cooking Sunday dinners - roasts of meat with lots of vegetables. I suppose I cook what's comforting and dishes that make me feel good.

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.

I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

People come to Nashville where I live and they say, 'What's a great Southern restaurant?' Well, you got to know the right grandmother, because there's a lot of magic to good Southern cooking.

Cod and clementine is one of the things my grandmother cooked for my mum when she was a child. Never one for waste, she'd keep the peel whenever she had a clementine, and this dish puts it to work.

When I was growing up, my grandmother cooked every day. She is the best chef ever.

I like simple home-cooked food.

A lot of my recipes I take from foods my grandmother used to cook, things she prepared for family reunions.

Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's food. It was amazing because it brings back a time almost in Technicolor. I see her house, I see her stove; I think about what it felt like when I was sick, and it felt like love.

I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn't like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.

We make authentic Maharashtrian food at home. My mother supervises the preparation and the menu every day. She has been doing this since before I was born. I absolutely love the mutton sukka that she makes.

When I smell pho, I just automatically think of my mom. All these nostalgic feelings and memories come rushing through my head.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

At home, my food is just sort of comfort food. It's not super fancy, but it's certainly tasty.

As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I'm obsessed with it.

I'm from South Georgia, so my mom, she always cooked some dang good food when I was growing up.

When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'