Enjoyment of Cooking Quotes

I derive a lot of joy from cooking. Had cooking been a mandatory task, I probably would have felt differently about it.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

I can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate - then I get upset when people eat it. Everyone just tears through it, and that makes me sad. It's not a rewarding experience for me to cook.

For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.

The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

I'm a girl, and I'm a cook- I just like to cook, and I don't like to worry about the distinctions. We're just supposed to make good food.

The fun of cooking is the fun of communicating with people, even if it's just two people. As you're cooking, you're talking, you're having a glass of wine. It's wonderful; it's an experience. Once you get into cooking, it becomes something that you really look forward to doing.

To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.