Culinary Therapy Quotes

Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.

Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.

All sorrows are less with bread.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Pie...it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

If I'm not writing a poem to decompress from my experiences on a movie set, I usually just cook and it's like meditative. Especially since I'm at the stage now where I don't really use measuring cups. Kind of instinctual, I just kind of prepare my own dishes as I go along.

Cooking can cure almost anything.

Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking.

Cooking puts me at ease; it gives me control over what's happening, and I know that the finished product is gonna be good, so I'm gonna be satisfied. That's kind of how I keep myself grounded.

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

Cooking a fantastic meal is therapeutic. I like the entire process-the chopping, the stirring. At the end, hopefully you get to enjoy a great meal with a friend or loved one.

I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook today, it's what makes me happy. I tend to overcompensate for my long absences when I'm home by cooking and it's therapeutic to me - it's how I express love for my daughter. It felt good to do.

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often . . .

In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.

Food can change your mood. It's almost like music a little bit, you know? It can break a fight. It could calm a child down. It could do so many things, and that's what I love.

I was one of those people raised by a woman who was what I call a prisoner of war. She was captured, she didn't want to be there, she was unhappy, she was banging away in the kitchen, the way that a prisoner would bang on her jail cell, you know, really unhappy. She had to cook for nine people with really little money, so she really just got burned out. So I didn't know that you could actually cook and it would be calming, pleasurable.