Robin Sloan Quotes

The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.

If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.

I remember being 20 years old and I'm living by myself for the first time with my buddies and what you're worried about day to day is what am I going to eat for dinner? I don't know how to cook, so I've got to get canned food. Those are the only worries you have in the world.

The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.

Once I was unemployed and didn't have money, you can't just go to dinner. The onus is on you to learn to cook... I learned how important the right equipment is.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.

I love shopping, especially food shopping.

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.

I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.