Recipe Exchange Quotes

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

I've always been very open about how my mother taught me to cook and how I'm delighted to share my family's recipes.

To me, my recipes are priceless.

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

I think sharing recipes is such an important part of baking and the baking world.

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

Baking's meant to be done at home. It's meant to be a good time. It's not about, like, hoarding secrets. It's about sharing them.

My great-grandmother taught my mom to cook and she passed down the recipes to me.

I have one room off my kitchen filled with nothing but cookbooks and recipes that are sent to me from around the world. Every two years, I have to go through them and pick out ones to send to the local schools. There's a need for books, especially cookbooks.

This shared love of cooking and celebration has allowed me to create a strong bond with my family.

I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her meatloaf.

When you taste something delicious, ask for the recipe! Or offer to trade a recipe!

I feel fortunate to be part of the cooking community. We learn from each other.

The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share what they have discovered.