Cooking – Quotes

Patience was not something

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. Gail Simmons

When I’m cooking for

When I’m cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I’m not vegetarian. Gail Simmons

Ultimately, I realized that

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education. Gail Simmons

Balance is key in

Balance is key in cooking – you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory – the flavors should be harmonious. Gail Simmons

When men reach their

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. Gail Sheehy

There are times when

There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak. Gael Greene

I got into cooking

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking. Gaby Hoffmann

Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing a smiling rack of gingerbread men in an oven. Baking gingerbread men, or any cooking for that matter, is probably close to suicide for a snowman, Liz thinks. Why would … Read more

I won’t say my

I won’t say my nutrition is perfect. If I’m at a restaurant and there’s fresh pasta on the menu, I’m going to order it. At home, though, I avoid grains and do a lot of the cooking to control what our family eats. Gabrielle Reece

It’s promising and seductive,

It’s promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it’s not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. … Read more