I get nervous cooking for our little house party barbecues. I’m very insecure with my cooking. I tend to throw things away that I’m scared of serving, even though they might be great. – Chrissy Teigen
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend – I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores. – Adam Gopnik
I wasn’t passionate about food until I’d been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period. – Bobby Flay
My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don’t talk about heat as an ingredient, I don’t quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes. – Alton Brown
One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I’ve even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I’ll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas. – Bailee Madison
I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It’s going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded. – Alton Brown
I’m not always optimistic. You wouldn’t have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins. – Carol Burnett
People may not know this about me, but I’ve always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom’s spicy spaghetti. – Becky G
My two sisters were always cooking. I wanted to be in the police force, but I didn’t get in because I just so happened to procrastinate a bit, and I hadn’t gotten my application in at the right time. – April Bloomfield
Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it’s packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around. – Aarti Sequeira
I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts. – Alain Ducasse
The first sign that I’d been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I’d been making toast. ‘First, we cut our bread,’ I whispered. ‘Do you know why?’ I stopped what I was doing and looked up. ‘Let me tell you why.’ – Bill Buford
When you don’t have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you’re doing meaningful work. – Alice Waters
From Julia Child to ‘The Galloping Gourmet’ and the Food Channel and Cooking Channel, our fascination with the spectacle of cooking has been a mainstay of TV entertainment. – Chuck Norris
‘Grandmother’ doesn’t mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren. – Carine Roitfeld
Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, ‘The Frugal Gourmet,’ made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes. – Alton Brown
I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine. – Amy Smart
When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster. – Alain Ducasse
I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator. – Alicia Silverstone
I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal. – April Bloomfield
I do not like people touching my underwear. That’s just weird! I travel with a washer and dryer, and I like cooking on the bus, too. – Carrie Underwood