Quotes about Cooking
You don't know what heat is until you cross the border from Texas to Louisiana in the summer. You can't come up with words that catch it. Trees give up. Turtles cook in their shells. Describe that if you know how.
— Toni Morrison
Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."
— Anonymous
Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.
— Ellen White
My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.
— Kamala Harris
An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
— Wendell Berry
Eating home-cooked meals from whole, in-season ingredients obtained from the most local source available is eating well, in every sense. Good for the habitat, good for the body.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
— Lauren Kate
I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
— Kerry Washington
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.
— Stephen Colbert
Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.
— Beverly Lewis
What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food!
— Margaret Atwood
And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.
— Brother Lawrence