Good Cooking Quotes and Sayings
Good cooking quotes might make your mouth water, think of your favorite dining experience, or give you more appreciation for the cooks in your life.
Cooking can give you a kind of personal gratification that hardly any other form of art can. It is not just an art but a combination of science and art. There are no fixed rules for it.
There is more to cooking than meets the eye. If you have someone around you who is a great cook or you love the art of cooking, here are some good cooking quotes for you.
Quotes About Cooking
1.) Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Horne
2.) Kissing don’t last: cookery do.
Victorian poet George Meredith
3.) Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you — fresh markets and various spices. It doesn’t necessarily have to look fancy.
G. Garvin
4.) In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
Julia Child
5.) Whatever I’m doing, I’m in that moment and I’m doing it. The rest of the world’s lost. If I’m cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what’s the point of doing it?
Sade Adu
6.) Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation—experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.
Paul Theroux
Good Cooking Quotes
7.) There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
Thomas Wolfe
8.) Cooking is the art of adjustment.
Jacques Pepin
9.) The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking, you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
Julia Child
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10.) When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.
Laiko Bahrs
11.) Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Craig Claiborne
12.) Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
Truman Capote
13.) The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
Sophia Loren
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Funny Cooking Quotes
14.) My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
Phyllis Diller
15.) One day I’m going to make the onions cry.
Unknown
16.) Fish, to taste right, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine.
Polish proverb
17.) An apron is just a cape on backward.
Unknown
18.) The smoke alarm going off is like the half-time buzzer in my game of cooking.
M.L. Atticus
19.) The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook – and isn’t.
Evan Esar
20.) Never trust a skinny cook.
Unknown
21.) The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.
Julia Child
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Dining Right Quotations
22.) Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
Julia Child
23.) Cooking Rule… If at first, you don’t succeed, order pizza.
Unknown
24.) Usually, one’s cooking is better than one thinks it is.
Julia Child
25.) Hunger finds no fault with the cooking.
Proverb
26.) Cooking well doesn’t mean cooking fancy.
Julia Child
27.) When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
28.) This recipe is called “I tried.”
Unknown
29.) I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
Julia Child
30.) 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
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Chef Quotes
31.) If anything goes wrong at the table, the cook is forever dishonored. He survives, not the disgrace. Let him welcome death.
François Vatel
32.) Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
Andre Simon
33.) No one who cooks cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Laurie Colwin
34.) You don’t have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes are not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.
Erin Morgenstern
35.) …no one is born a great cook; one learns by doing.
Julia Child
36.) Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
37.) Very good cooks who are employed as ‘chefs’ rarely refer to themselves as ‘chefs.’ They refer to themselves as ‘cooks.’
Alton Brown
38.) There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they’re not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.
Delia Smith
Cooking with Friends Quotations
39.) I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal and enjoying my friends.
Cindy Morgan
40.) Laughter is brightest, where food is best.
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41.) He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them is not worthy of having friends.
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
42.) I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
Maya Angelou
43.) Food is not about impressing people. It’s about making them feel comfortable.
Ina Garten
Short Cooking Quotes
44.) Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
Anthony Bourdain
45.) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
46.) A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.
Thomas Keller
47.) Part of the secret of success is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
48.) Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
Federico Fellini
49.) Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.
Don Kardong
50.) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elisa Schiaparelli
Food Quotes
51.) There is no more sincere love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
52.) You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.
Paul Prudhomme
53.) Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, people get together to eat everywhere around the world.
Guy Fieri
54.) The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.
Dione Lucas
55.) You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces — just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia Child
56.) I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
Madam Benoit
57.) All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Charles M. Shulz
Best Cooking Quotes
58.) If you’re not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.
Michael Strahan
59.) It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Miguel de Cervantes
60.) Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors—it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.
Wolfgang Puck
61.) Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.
Marcel Boulestin
62.) And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
William Shakespeare
63.) Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It’s about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.
Guy Fieri
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market, most of which deal with wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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