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.
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.
I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
For me, cooking is practical. That's the core of an engineer. Engineers are very practical designers and creative people. Every single thing I create has to have a purpose.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.
I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.
In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.
I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.
I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do.
Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.
With a pie, the crust is a real delicacy. It's very hard to get it just right because it's got to be cold and just the right consistency. There's a whole art to it and I haven't learned how to do it [filming in Waitress].There's not a lot of time for cooking, especially when you're shooting nights or working until 11pm.
The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
It's all about technique. Rotisserie sounds simple, but to really do it the right way is important so you can get really great products and let them stand on their own.
Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.
You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.
