Katies Home Cooking Quotes

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for. ~ Sophia Loren

Even cooking at home, the difference between my wife cooking and me cooking is major. When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks like a disaster. When I cook it's completely clean and organized and it doesn't look like anyone has been cooking in there. ~ Tom Colicchio

Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody. ~ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home. ~ Colm Meaney

I like being at home and cooking. ~ Shania Twain

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff. ~ Prince Philip

No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome. ~ Mike Trout

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home. ~ Sally Schneider

I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking. ~ Anthony Bourdain

An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends. ~ Rene Redzepi

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren. ~ Carine Roitfeld

Today's orthodoxy thrives on someone else doing the cooking. The single-service packet from the supermarket has replaced the sit-down home-cooked meal as the most common food choice. Easy foodism disengages people from the process and creates a level of food illiteracy unthinkable just a few short decades ago. ~ Joel Salatin

I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce. ~ Ruth Reichl

I love being at home and cooking and baking. ~ Blake Lively

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. ~ Nora Ephron

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. ~ Craig Claiborne

When I'm home, I cook. I love cooking for people. ~ Emily Saliers

Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife's cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning. ~ Mark Barrowcliffe

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking. ~ Susan Hampshire

Cooking is the great divide between good eating and bad. The gains are quantifiable. Cooking and eating at home - even with quality ingredients - costs pennies on the dollar compared with meals prepared by a restaurant or factory. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I was a good Indian girl, but naughty in that I would often sneak out of the back door and into the garden and go off with my friends when I should have been at home cooking or cleaning. ~ Gurinder Chadha

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. ~ Craig Claiborne

Home cooking is the true embodiment of love. It makes us show patience, kindness, humility, hope, and perseverance. ~ Agus Ekanurdi

I think my family, especially having three teenage sons, keeps my cooking at home grounded and very approachable. I'm definitely not making spumas in my kitchen, that's for sure! ~ Rick Tramonto

I think I'm pretty laid back. I like cooking, being at home, and going to concerts. And I love to shop! ~ Misty Copeland

In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking. ~ Bee Wilson

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it. ~ Ted Allen

Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is. ~ Jimmy Durante

I do the cooking at home. Where we eat no more than 100 grams of meat a day and have 'tons' of fresh vegetables. I prepare the vegetables with a wide range of herbs, spices and such. We also keep on hand lots of fruit, yogurt and great breads. ~ Graham Kerr

Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour. ~ Patrick Duffy

I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick. ~ Chandra Wilson

When it comes to cooking now, my motto is "out with the whites! ~ Robin Ellis

I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not. ~ Marcus Samuelsson

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food. ~ Craig Claiborne

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl. ~ Nicole Scherzinger

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking. ~ Tom Colicchio

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. ~ Ina Garten

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving. ~ Christine Lagarde

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants. ~ Delia Smith

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking. ~ Clarence Clemons

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy. ~ Julia Child

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. ~ Mario Batali

Cooking food in a restaurant is not that different from cooking at home, except for the speed with which you must do it while minding a slew of other time sensitive tasks, all in a very small, very hot kitchen. But that difference was my salvation. ~ Boris Fishman

If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain. ~ Craig Ferguson

My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true. ~ Roz Chast

Take cooking, for example. Today, women in general are more likely to do housework than men - cooking and cleaning. But why is that? Is it because women are born with a cooking gene or because over years they have been socialized to see cooking as their role? ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

He is more rooted to the idea of home. He created this home...and established routines like watching the BBC and cooking barbecues for friends. It's much harder to dismantle that world and to rebuild it somewhere else. ~ Azar Nafisi

I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself. ~ David Chang

Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me. ~ Phillip Phillips

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't. ~ Joely Fisher

I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows. ~ Hank Stuever

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school. ~ Wendi Deng Murdoch

He who makes soup of thistles is ill qualified to discuss the savor of a stalled ox.
Chinese Sayings ~ Helen Evans Brown

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook. ~ Julia Child

If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.". ~ Ken Robinson

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

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity. ~ Guy Fieri

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all. ~ Harriet Van Horne

the difference between restaurant cooking and home cooking - and often, too, the difference between great flavor and tasteless food - is two things: more heat and more seasoning. His constant refrain as he made his way around the kitchen: "More heat. More salt. More butter. ~ Shauna Niequist

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing. ~ Rene Redzepi

I like cooking, but I like other people cooking more. ~ David Wenham

I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C. ~ Jose Andres

Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports. ~ Mason Cooley

I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well. ~ Maura Tierney

Mastering the Art of French Cooking ... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish. ~ Julia Child

In Berlin, I worked from home, were the only other women sat sedately on my bookshelves. They were good company, it has to be said, but a little quiet. ~ Luisa Weiss

I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas. ~ Michael Mina

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. ~ Maya Angelou

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good. ~ William Lethaby

I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils. ~ Apolo Ohno

I would definitely be interested in doing a cooking show or something related to cooking, and I think probably most immediately, I would do a cookbook. ~ Keshia Knight Pulliam

When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking. ~ Yotam Ottolenghi

The best meals are those prepared by loving hands. ~ Ken Poirot

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. ~ Ida B. Wells

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family. ~ Al Roker

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show. ~ Christopher Walken

Home cooking is anything you buy in your hometown. ~ Mary McLeary

What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof. ~ Homaro Cantu

It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him. ~ Robertson Davies

Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,
And imprint forever upon our hearts
That this is home
and that we are loved. ~ Arlene Stafford-Wilson

I was going to be one of those crazy ladies with fifty cats, a recliner, and a coupon addiction. Except my cats were going to be books. Books were way less stinky than cats. ~ Cambria Hebert

Am going to cook shepherd's pie for them all - British home cooking. ~ Helen Fielding

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. ~ Julia Child

Cooking is both simpler and more necessary than we imagine. ~ Tamar Adler

Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human generosity takes; that much I sort of knew. But the very best cooking, I discovered, is also a form of intimacy. ~ Michael Pollan

Huh - Why is Max in the kitchen?"
Dr.Martinez: "We're cooking."
Gazzy: "She's just keeping you company, right?"
Dr.Martinez: "No, she's cooking."
Nudge: "Cooking ... food?"
Max: "Yes, I'm cooking food, and it's great, and you're going to eat it, you twerps! ~ James Patterson

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn. ~ Julia Child

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys. ~ Martin Yan

When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it. ~ Nathan Myhrvold

Once again, there was a terrorist attack inside my mouth. ~ Namekojirushi

I don't believe in low-fat cooking. ~ Nigella Lawson

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking. ~ Emeril Lagasse

I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book. ~ Patsy Kensit

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens. ~ Alma Guillermoprieto

Where Thou art - that - is Home. ~ Emily Dickinson

Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating. ~ Yotam Ottolenghi

There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes. ~ Ming-Na Wen

I remember being a young boy in Spain and watching my parents cook. We didn't go to a lot of restaurants because we didn't always have the money, so cooking at home was just what we did. ~ Jose Andres