Cooking
Quotes - I cook with wine
“If
you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat," Jace muttered.
Isabelle
froze, her spoon poised dangerously. "What did you say?"
Jace
edged toward the fridge. "I said I'm going to look for a snack to
eat."
That's
what I thought you said." Isabelle turned her attention to the soup.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
“I
cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
―
W.C. Fields
“The
only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a
what-the-hell attitude.”
―
Julia Child
“He'd
noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they
sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures,
and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their
imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and
chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.”
―
Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
“An
idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage,
concludes that it makes a better soup.”
―
H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques
“The
most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the
family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
―
Calvin Trillin
“Calvin:
Why are you crying mom?
Mom:
I'm cutting up an onion.
Calvin:
It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.”
―
Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
“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
“Vegetarians,
and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of
everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
―
Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“We
had this big grill at his house, and I remember, one night he said, 'Sam,
tonight you're feeding us,' He showed me how to push on the middle of the
steaks to see how done they were, and how to sear them fast on each side to
keep the juices in."
"And
they were awesome, weren't they?"
"I
burned the hell out of them," I said, matter-of-fact. "I'd compare
them to charcoal, but charcoal is still sort of edible.”
―
Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
“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,
the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
―
Laurie Colwin
“Alaska
decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave
the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy
boy-prepared food.”
―
John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Always
start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.”
―
Julia Child
“If
you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take
any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is
the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat.
With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of
time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore,
can keep a person who tries hard sane.”
―
John Irving, The World According to Garp
“...no
one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.”
―
Julia Child, My Life in France
“Cooking
is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of
love.”
―
Craig Claiborne
“Until
I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.”
―
Julia Child
“I
think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our
bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same
way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and
fragility.”
―
Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard
Way
“Anyone
who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is
not invited to my house for dinner”
―
Ruth Reichl
“Sentinel
meeting tonight,” Ria told her. “At Lucas's place.”
“Time?”
...
“Seven.
Sascha's doing dinner.”
“God
save us all.” Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking
didn't like her back.”
―
Nalini Singh, Branded by Fire
“Maybe
the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has
collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks
it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth
and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes.”
―
Julia Child, My Life in France
“There
ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.”
―
Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
“It
can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum,
pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.”
―
Deb Caletti, The Queen of Everything
“Oh,
I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.”
―
Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
“I
am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all
emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my
beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish,
to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.”
―
M.F.K. Fisher
“All
worries are less with wine.”
―
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
