Kitchen Quotes - If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen

Kitchen Quotes - If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen

“Sometimes my kitchen sink doubles as a duck pond. Problem is, I can't exactly move my diving board, so I have to relocate Greg Louganis Hour to another slot, like one on the toaster.”

― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“Sensuality is the real soul food.”

― Lebo Grand

“I can feel Mother's furious eyes upon me, but the tug of the kitchen is stronger: my new books, the fresh perch gleaming in the larder, the trugs of field mushrooms and damsons and pippin apples still with the dew upon them, the curly green parsley I shall fry until crisp...”

― Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

“And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this--kitchen-- candle...”

― Tennessee Williams

“Everything in here was clean and bright, warm and cosy. What a joy it is in life when you happen to have a clean, warm kitchen.”

― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“Sensuality is the real food for the soul.”

― Lebo Grand

“There’s the old saying, ‘if you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.’ That implies that something’s cooking and I’m probably not the one cooking it, which means that I’m yet in another place that I shouldn’t be in. Any maybe that’s why it’s hot.”

― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The smell of bruised apples reaches me of a sudden. And in that moment I am back in Miss Eliza's kitchen, rich with cooking odors: the nutty smell of roasting coffee berries, the syrupy scent of fruit upon the stove, the pierce of a fresh-cut lemon, the sweet warmth of a split vanilla pod, the earthy heat of a crushed clove.”

― Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

“I took a deep breath and recalled every smell of my childhood: the cinnamon that dominated not only winter baking, but many of the tomato-based Italian dishes Mom loved; vanilla, always used as an undertone to her egg-based savories; and rosemary. When did she not use rosemary?”

― Katherine Reay, Lizzy and Jane

“Sensuality is food for the soul.”

― Lebo Grand

“An interesting thing about kitchens: while ghosts are most drawn to the dark, deserted areas of the house, typically the attic or basement—or closets, in the case of our current boogeyman—the kitchen, in my experience, tends to be the least haunted area. Maybe it’s the fact that kitchens are well-lit, but they’re also the center of activity for the living, the emotional energy constantly churned and refreshed. They’re the heart of the home, and I think something about that keeps the restless spirits at bay, hiding in the shadows. There are plenty of exceptions, of course.”

― J.L. Bryan, The Crawling Darkness

“Torture Cuisine by Stewart Stafford

Kitchen death growls,

Whipping that cream,

Beating those eggs,

Burning all the toast.

Knifing diced cheese,

Drawn, quartered ham,

Straining tomato sauce,

Crushed-down walnuts.

Peeling potatoes naked,

Then smashing them up,

You say purée, I say mash,

Turkey and chicken skewers.

― Stewart Stafford

“The kitchen is a pharmacy; whereas, it is also a poison-room; it depends on you that, what you make of it?”

― Ehsan Sehgal

“Never show people your menu, for your kitchen will be replaced by a dump site, your mind.”

― Goitsemang Mvula

“Folding dough from the top, from one side, from the bottom, from the other side, I work, the twirl of my hands grounding my emotions. Using the fingers of my left hand, I rake the sticky mixture from my right hand into the bowl, wasting nothing. I know the rhythm of this poem by heart.”

― Brenda Sutton Rose

“I pour buttermilk into the crater and work the mixture until it is pasty. Using my fingers, I pull dry flour into the wet ingredients, building on the dough, kneading it, drawing meal from the sides. My fingers make small circles while my hand makes a larger circular motion, working around the bowl.”

― Brenda Sutton Rose

“Storytelling tastes best in the kitchen, told deep inside the aroma of cooking, told with stomachs growling and mouths salivating. In the kitchen, partnerships formed, bargains began, forgiveness came with the sharing of food.”

― Brenda Sutton Rose

“At times the cooks express a small amount of generosity and pour half a glass of milk for every prisoner.”

― Behrouz Boochani, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

“Tomatoes should be accorded with respect, for without them, Christmas stew wouldn’t exist.”

― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Then I opened a door of dull brown wood, and a breath of warm, fragrant air struck me. I stood on the threshold of a kitchen with red poppies painted around the rim of its walls, and wide windows whose lacy white curtains glowed with morning light. It looked as if the cooks had just vanished, for oatmeal bubbled on the stove next to a pan of sizzling sausages, mushrooms, and capers, while on the table a fresh-baked loaf of bread sat fragrant next to a little dish of olives and a pile of pastries.”

― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“The table stands fast between the kitchen and the family room. It nestles between arguments and television shows, homework and birthday parties, breakfast and dinner.”

― Patrick R.F. Blakley, Drummond: Learning to find himself in the music

“A kitchen-diner should be somewhere that nourishes us and promotes healthy behaviors, and having the right kitchen equipment and food on display can go a long way toward this. Consider placing juicers or filtered water in an accessible space on the counter, or having an inviting fruit bowl or a kitchen herb box on the windowsill.”

― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Lighting is also key for enhancing social interactions. It is important to have a range of dimmable lighting to suit different functions and moods, from lively and open to romantic and intimate.”

― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“By May 2020, I was becoming increasingly forgetful. We were finding things in the kitchen that had been put into the wrong places. My fatigue had ramped up, allergy season was in full swing and I was routinely taking allergy medicines. The pulse oximeter was showing that I was having a few bouts of low oxygen that would last over an hour each time during sleep.”

― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“That', Ghoolion said in a voice quivering with rage, 'is my dungeon for useless kitchen utensils. There's one such in every kitchen worthy of the name. Its inmates are kept there like especially dangerous patients in a mental institution.'

He reached into the cupboard and brought out an odd-looking implement.

'What cook', he cried, 'does not possess such a gadget, which can sculpt a radish into a miniature rose? I acquired it at a fair in one of those moments of mental derangement when life without a miniature-rose-cutting gadget seems unimaginable.'

He hurled the thing back into the darkness and brought out another.

'Or this here, which enables one to cut potatoes into spirals five yards long! Or this, a press for juicing turnips! Or this, a frying pan for producing rectangular omelettes!'

Ghoolion took gadget after gadget from the cupboard and held them under Echo's nose, glaring at them angrily.

'What induced me to buy all these? What can one do with potato spirals long enough to decorate a banqueting hall? What demented voice convinced me in a whisper that I might some day be visited by guests with an insatiable hankering for turnip juice, rectangular omelettes and potatoes five yards long?'

He Hurled the gadgets back into their dungeon with a look of disgust.

'Why, I ask myself, don't I simply chuck them all on to the rubbish dump? I'll tell you that too. I keep them for one reason alone: revenge! I keep them just as medieval princes kept their enemies on starvation rations. A quick death on a rubbish dump would be too merciful. No, let them languish in a gloomy dungeon, condemned to everlasting inactivity. That's the only condign punishment for a rectangular omelette pan!”

― Walter Moers, Der Schrecksenmeister

“The kitchen is a pharmacy; whereas, it is also a poison-room; it depends on you, what you make of it?”

― Ehsan Sehgal

“Home is the starting place of love, hope and dreams. It's the place where families gather and friendships are made. It's also the place where we all need to be healthy, safe and comfortable”

― Homebestchoice

“He had flowing coarse parted fiery crimson hair and with coals for eyes his entire smooth ruddy face seemed to be holding back a furnace that ignited the rest of his head; he utilized his umbrella as a poker to close the door and walked into the hearth of the house - the kitchen table.”

― J.S. Mason, Whisky Hernandez