Cooks quotes
177 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?"
"You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it."
"Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks"
"Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you."
"I'm not much of cook, but I cook a mean bowl of oatmeal."
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"I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean."
"...a tale of too many cooks in the defence."
"I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients."
"God made food; the devil the cooks."
"I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it."
"If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook."
"The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook"
"The French don't know how to cook breakfast."
"Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you."
"One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat."
"I've always had my guard. I have my cook and my guard. I want to eat, and I want to live."
"A rain will fall, but the dirt it tough A pot a cook but the food nah nuff."
"Would the cook were o' my mind!"
"I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant."
"I would probably never have learned to cook."
"Man is an animal that cooks his victuals."
"I like to cook things very slowly."
"I'm a rather crude cook."
"[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher."
"Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'"
