I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.
People who like to cook like to talk about food. . . . without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
The skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it.
I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.
I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.
I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.
It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself. "
I'm a rather crude cook.
I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.
I used to live with two other guys. We used to cook two things. The first one was called 'cheese. . . thing' and that was where you get something and you melt cheese over it and the first one to guess what it is doesn't have to wash up. That's obviously quite Mediterranean; the other one was less complex. It was just called 'cheese fantasy. ' That's where you come in, very drunk, at about five in the morning and find an apple and just pretend there's some cheese on it.
The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
Never trust a skinny cook.
Tim Cook has been asked a very specific question, in public by the way, and Tim Cook has refused in public. I don't blame him for that. I will guarantee you that there are all kinds of things that the private sector can be doing to be helpful, and they have not been engaged.
He can cook and give good massages. What more do you need in a husband?
I always loved to cook and entertain but I realized I had the chance to be successful with something that I am passionate about.
I love to cook; that's my passion.
I cook a lot. I'm always experimenting. I'm not much of a recipe follower.
You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.
I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.