A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.
I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that.
Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends.
One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.
As in cooking, living requires that you taste, taste, taste as you go along.
Nourishment is not just “nutrition. ” Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the table, the love and inspiration in the cooking, and the joy of the entire eating experience.
Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over.
I think people are intimidated by grilling. . maybe it's the flame, maybe it's the big grills, maybe they've had some bad childhood experiences. . but I think that grilling is actually the easiest technique in cooking.
Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.
I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - its authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.
I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.
Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.
As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.
fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows