When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what’s offered – and that’s a shame. – Michael Pollan
My grandmother’s house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the kitchen always had pots cooking with the lids were always bump, bump, bump, bump, bubbling, you know? – Kay Robertson
I feel like there’s a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better. – Marcus Samuelsson
That’s one of the ironies of our time: Right when we’re on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we’re also cooking the planet. – Kim Stanley Robinson
Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction. – Marcus Samuelsson
I love cooking. It’s one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents’ recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me. – Lance Bass
One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That’s not cooking; that’s putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I’m not saying it was good. – Lesley Nicol
I’m like a teenage boy – I eat like one and know as much cooking as one. Neither do I bake, and I can always be counted on to bring the wine to a pot luck. – Julia London
My cousin owns restaurants, and I used to work in his restaurants with his chef. I’ve always liked food, and I’ve always been interested in cooking and stuff like that. – Luke Pasqualino
Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz – but I would be unhappy. I wouldn’t want my children raised that way. – Kate Winslet
Our big problem is that high-calorie, special-occasion foods like cakes, fried foods, etc. have become so cheap and easy that we eat them every day. Make them special again by cooking them yourself. You won’t do it every day, I promise. – Michael Pollan
It’s no accident that Julia Child appeared on public television – or educational television, as it used to be called. On a commercial network, a program that actually inspired viewers to get off the couch and spend an hour cooking a meal would be a commercial disaster, for it would mean they were turning off the television to do something else. – Michael Pollan
It’s nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking – but I’m down here eating pretty for two weeks and I’m ready to go back to New York City. – Justin Townes Earle
You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can’t be angry cooking. – Marcus Samuelsson
When I was a child, I pretended that I had my own cooking show. I would stand at the kitchen counter with an empty bowl and spoon and talk in a silly voice, explaining the concoction I was creating. – Kimberly Schlapman
I used to throw cooking parties in university. Everyone would come over – sometimes you’d just do a mac and cheese, but if you do that better than everyone else, you can get people to come to you. – Kimbal Musk
My husband is the chef of the family; he’s a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that’s so good at cooking under the same roof. It’s all beans or spaghetti when I’m left to run it. – Keeley Hawes
I’m fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything’s cooking. – Liza Minnelli
Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children. – Kathryn Stockett
Whenever anyone asked me what I’d do if I wasn’t a singer, I’d say, ‘Oh, I’d have a cooking show.’ – Kimberly Schlapman
If I’m cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an authentic way. To speak to people like I want to be spoken to, to be a voice for people who don’t have one and to give them things they need and love. – Khloe Kardashian
The process was remarkably cathartic. I’d sit and listen to my father’s voice – having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner – and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days. – Jennifer Grant
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there’s bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. – Karen Armstrong