A lot of people don't know, but I love soul food. I love fried chicken and pork chops, all of that.
The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
I like to cook for my friends. It is an act of love because in cooking you can create so many plates and recipes, if you know how to - otherwise you make a mess - but I like it because it's like a ceremony. You cook for your friends and after, you drink wine and play cards.
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.
Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.
Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.
If it tastes good, spit it out!
The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one is that I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights of people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill.
You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.
Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.
There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.
I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.
Yes, scrambled eggs are lovely, and I've eaten them, and enjoyed them, and that was OK. Now I don't want to any more, and that's OK too.
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.
Eating a cookie never feels strange. I am a big believer in food in general.
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile.
Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.
When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?
Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.
