Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.
I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great.
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
I love to cook. I could never give that up.
Being a cook, there's always pressure - not for your ego but for people to love your food.
I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.
And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.
I am addicted to watching cookery shows.
To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook.
I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy.
You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.
I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.
My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale of succulence. She'd try new methods.
I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.
I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.
The French cook; we open tins.
I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.
I've cooked my whole life, and I grew up in a household of cooks.
No one's born a good cook. You have to learn and practice.
I used to be a chef.
Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.
Didn't know until my rookie year you could buy chicken parts separate, like drumsticks and thighs and breast. My granny always bought the whole chicken and cut it up.
I can't cook.
