Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child

I'm from where...Rich and A hit the kitchen they were pitchin up

The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life — every aspect of it. So, in some ways, the thought of not being able to do that anymore radically affects your life.

My mom was a great cook so I always wanted to eat and make stuff. I did cooking in 4-H but it wasn't until I was out of college that I decided I wanted to make this my career.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

There's a difference between watching a chef show, which doesn't feel like a reality show compared to the Housewives. Those shows can, I think, not only lower your IQ, but really just knock the wind out of you, because we're all here in this business.

I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

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.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

I've always been one of those people who romanticized cooking, but the few attempts I'd made in my life resulted in friends' contorted faces as they desperately tried to say something nice about the "dish" they were eating.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.