Quotes tagged ‘Cooking’

“When you get married, marry a man who can cook.”

— Jessica Goldberg, Nicole, Ali Ahn, imdb.com

“Your meatloaf is mushy, your salmon croquettes are oily, and your eggplant parmesan is a disgrace to this house!”

— Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin, Frank Costanza, Jerry Stiller, imdb.com

“Inchon, Korea, 1950. I was the best cook Uncle Sam ever saw, slinging hash for the Fighting 103rd. As we marched north, our supply lines were getting thin. One day a couple of GIs found a crate, inside were six hundred pounds of prime Texas steer. At least it once was prime. The use date was three w…”

— Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin, Frank Costanza, Jerry Stiller, imdb.com

“She has a black belt in cookery—she can kill you with one chop.”

— Benny Hill, books.google.com

“Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.”

— Nora Ephron, articles.latimes.com

“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 sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of…”

— Nora Ephron, books.google.com

“Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny…”

— Nora Ephron, books.google.com

“Cooking is an incredibly intimate thing to do for people. Sex is intimate, but in a way, also completely non-intimate, depending on how you approach it.”

— Alton Brown, eater.com

“You remember the food and you remember the people you met who make it.”

— Alton Brown, bittersoutherner.com

“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 h…”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“Cook dinner together, even if you only chop vegetables for a salad. It is about spending quality time together, doing everyday things and talking to each other, it also shows she is important to you.”

— Kat, luvze.com

“Fix her breakfast in bed and put a single flower (her favorite) in a vase on the tray. If you can’t find her favorite then get a rose, carnation, daisy whatever you can find, she will love it. So this one might cost you a couple dollars for a flower but she is worth it, right?”

— Kat, luvze.com

“Hi, I'm Anna, I'm alone tonight and I'm looking for a strapping muscular man to come over because butternut squash is hard to dice.”

— Anna Kendrick, twitter.com

“The smell of home-made cooking.”

— Nancy Vu, amazon.com

“He doesn't know how to cook, and is proud of it.”

— Kat George, bustle.com

“A man that is emotionally available and ready for a relationship will take pride in his home. He could live with his parents, with a group of friends or by himself, but the key element is that he doesn’t expect anyone to clean up after him or cook for him.”

— Cassandra Lane, youqueen.com

“Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.”

— Ina Garten, amazon.com

“The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.”

— Ina Garten, amazon.com

“They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.”

— Ina Garten, amazon.com

“Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.”

— Ina Garten, amazon.com