Alice Waters Quotes

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

I guess I fell into cooking.

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.

Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.

I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.

I love cooking and baking.

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

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

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.

I prefer eating to cooking.

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.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

I've never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.