It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.
I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.
I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.
Food that's beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn't.
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.
I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.
I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks. . . and I cook in any language.
At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!
Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.
I got into cooking out of self-defense.
Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties. . . including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.
Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.
If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.
The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to achieve this result, he will find it necessary not merely to make use of the freshest and finest goods, but also to exercise the most scrupulous care in their preparation, for, in cooking, care is half the battle.