I love to mix things up and create new dishes in the kitchen. I love cooking shrimp scampi and having a glass of Pinot Grigio while listening to music.
Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.
Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
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!
The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.
Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
One thing inspired me the most from the time I spent in Charleston was how much heritage and history are connected to influencing how I cook. Each dish tugged my heart in a different spot that after I finished cooking, I was really emotional and felt fulfilled at the same time.
Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.
It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing. . . The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.
It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps me execute the progressive cooking we do at Alinea.
We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
My grandfather had a wonderful funeral. . . On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.
My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the more I've come to the conclusion that the collapse of cooking is a big part of the problem.
There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.
I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.