40 Cooking Quotes Full of Flavor and Love

1. "Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." - Harriet Van Horne

2. "Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy." - Mary Berry

3. “If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others. It’s the same with music.” - will.i.am

4. “Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don’t realize it. Even if you’re not a great chef, there’s nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn’t.” - Gerard Depardieu

5. "Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks." - Judith Jones

6. “I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.” - Laura Esquivel

7. “Food is art, and food is love. And we should show love and appreciation for those who cook it by eating it with relish.” - Mark Bittman

8. “Cooking well, with love, is an art.” — Asha Bhosle

9. “Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation—experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.” - Paul Theroux

10. “I feel a recipe is only a theme which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.” — Madam Benoit

11. “Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.” - Maya Angelou

12. “Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.” - Craig Claiborne

13. "The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for." - Sophia Loren

14. "Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist" - Keith Floyd

15. "Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness." - Ted Allen

1. "Cooking is a philosophy; it's not a recipe." - Marco Pierre White

2. "Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good." - Ina Garten

3. "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, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat." - Guy Fieri

4. "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

5. "Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye." - Gordon Ramsay

6. "Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity." - Guy Fieri

7. "Cooking is creating emotion." - Joel Robuchon

8. "Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history." - David Chang

9. “So when people ask me, ‘What do you think of Michelin?’ I don’t cook for guides. I cook for customers.” - Gordon Ramsay

10. “Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way – that’s the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.” — Jose Andres

11. "Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking." - Tom Colicchio

12. "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." - Julia Child

13. "Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts." - Fannie Farmer

14. “No rules. Don’t be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn’t have to have rules. I don’t like it that way.” — Masaharu Morimoto

15. "No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing." - Julia Child

1. "My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor." - Phyllis Diller

2. "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food." - W. C. Fields

3. “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking, you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” - Julia Child

4. “Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls, and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.” - Gordon Ramsay

5. “Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don’t fall at least 10 times, then you’re not skiing hard enough.” - Guy Fieri

6. "I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food" - Erma Bombeck

7. "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

8. "I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking." - Katherine Cebrian

9. "The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it." - Andy Rooney

10. "Life is too short to stuff a mushroom." - Storm Jameson