Quotes about cooking

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

— Thomas Carlyle

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.

— Katherine Cebrian

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

— Tom Jaine

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

— Groucho Marx

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a home might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

— Emily Post

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

— Oscar Wilde

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

— Thomas Wolfe

every recipe can be delicious if you put your heart in.

— garrysandhu

To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

— Buddha

Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not to eat meat anymore. Then, observe the changing of the body and spirit after eating veggies, fruits and grains ?

— Buddha

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

— George Meredith

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

— William Shakespeare