I can cook because my life depended on it when I lived in Thailand. Either I learnt cooking, or I learnt how it felt to starve. I chose cooking. – Akshay Kumar
I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people’s kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget. – Curtis Stone
I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting. – Andy Rooney
You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, ’cause people want to hear the old stuff. It’s like cooking, you know? You can’t put too many peppers into the eggs… otherwise it’s going to be distasteful. – Eric Burdon
Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives. – Crescent Dragonwagon
It’s a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn’t make sense. – Eric Ripert
When chefs like Wolfgang Puck became household names, that became a compelling reason for an intelligent young person to go into the cooking profession. There have been no waiters who have turned into household names. The service and hospitality aspects have clearly lagged behind the kitchen. – Danny Meyer
I’ve always been known for bold flavors and rustic cooking, but there is another side to me. As you evolve as a cook, you understand life and how serious it is. There comes a point where there’s got to be a better balance. – Emeril Lagasse
The majority of small-holder farmers in Africa are women and, in urban areas, you’re primarily looking at women-led households. So we can’t solve hunger if we don’t have gender-sensitive programming that addresses access to opportunities for women, whether it’s through education or tools for cooking, like solar-powered stoves. – Ertharin Cousin
You don’t just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you’ve got to make it look like what it’s supposed to look like five years from now. – Nadia Giosia
Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. – Gail Simmons
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try. – Ellen Swallow Richards
Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it’s also very fundamental. – Daniel Boulud
I can make things, but I don’t cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I’m too absentminded. – Paula Poundstone
It’s not like I’m cooking! I’m breastfeeding – I feel like that’s the best cooking I could do. – Marcia Cross
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. – Mary Antin
Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don’t realize it. Even if you’re not a great chef, there’s nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn’t. – Gerard Depardieu
I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity. – Carla Hall
Writing is what I do. It’s like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn’t write, I do like cooking. – Nora Ephron
I would love to go on ‘MasterChef’. But while I really like cooking, I’m doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I’d cooked. – Ed Balls
I know that for me, whenever I’m in a situation where there’s death or sickness, my personality is to come in and do whatever I can to ease anything I can, in terms of offering to take care of things. Cooking, organizing, things like that. – Elizabeth Rodriguez
I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time. – Daniel Boulud
I’m a complete foodie, but I’m a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that’s amazing. – Emily Ratajkowski
A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don’t have to buy the knife I have. You don’t have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen. – Masaharu Morimoto
No rules. Don’t be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn’t have to have rules. I don’t like it that way. – Masaharu Morimoto
I’m kind of a grandma, so I like cooking for my boyfriend and watching a movie. I cook a lot, actually. I’ll make bacon-wrapped asparagus, steak, and pesto pasta with chicken…but we go out to dinner a fair amount, too. – Gigi Hadid