Cooks - Cooking Quotes

Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, It will get thick! It’s a sure thing! It’s a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure.

I prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts because they don’t require so much cooking.

The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the only cook (the best cook).

Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.

Do not overdo what has already been overdone.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

Martha Stewart, cooking on television with Julia Child, couldn’t stop correcting Julia’s work. She quietly picked, picked, picked away at this and that, and Julia Child, in her inimitable, breezy way, just let the criticisms float by. Julia Child, for all the years of complaints about her technique, has never failed to express her firm […]

There is only one thing more expensive than a wife who can cook and won’t and that’s a wife that can’t cook and will.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.