In the U.K., if guests don’t have a good meal they often won’t complain, but you can guarantee you won’t see them again. Americans are far more likely to voice their complaints.
Cooks - Cooking Quotes
Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don’t fall at least 10 times, then you’re not skiing hard enough.
My cooking isn’t creatively cutting edge. They’re more from “remember” flavors. So, I tend to take a recipe for boeuf bourguignon and make it simpler. I’m a big believer in making a better potato chip. That’s my goal. Take something that everybody just loves, but make it better than anybody else.
I’m really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly—until I decide not to.
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.
I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There’s turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, ‘man, just be yourself.’
A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear them consider saying ‘that smells good’ to be helping.
I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast. (Charlie Brown, “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”)
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe.
