50 Best Cooking Quotes That Will Entice Your Inner Chef

“GOOD FOOD is GOOD MOOD.” The perfect motto we would love to live by is COOK – EAT – CLEAN – REPEAT.

Cooking helps us to understand various cultures, customs, and flavors. Being less expensive than eating at restaurants and fast-food cafes, it’s a great hobby for all.

Cooking entitles us to be creative and satisfies our senses. The joy that you get after cooking the favorite dish of your loved ones is incomparable.

Whether the food is baked, fried, sautéed, boiled, or grilled, it’s all love for cooking. Home-cooked food provides us with a healthy lifestyle.

Cooking together allows people to harness closer bonds and helps build lifelong memories. Happiness is homemade. Let us read some quotes that will make us understand the importance of cooking.

Quotes about cooking from the heart

1.”What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.” – Nora Ephron 

2. “I`m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.” – Maya Angelou 

3. “Cooking today is a young man`s game, I don`t give a bollocks what anyone says.” – Gordon Ramsay 

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

5. “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 

6. “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 

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. “In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.” – Julia Child 

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

10. “Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” – Harriet Van Horne 

11. “If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.” – Tom Jaine 

12. “Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.” – Nigella Lawson 

13. “The greatest dishes are very simple.” – Auguste Escoffier 

14. “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 

15. “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 

16. “Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it`s too assertive to the naked eye.” – Gordon Ramsay 

17. “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 

18. “You don`t come into cooking to get rich.” – Gordon Ramsay 

19. “If you think well, you cook well.” – Ferran Adria 

 20. “All cooking is a matter of time. In general, the more time the better.” – John Erskine 

Best Cooking Quotes For Culinary Inspiration

There are a lot of must-know skills that you should incorporate to attain refinement in cooking. Knife Skills, making the perfect stock, mastering the Five Mother Sauces, and vegetable sanitation are different arenas you should explore if you are passionate about cooking. Also, staying safe in the kitchen is of utmost importance.

21. “I don`t like gourmet cooking or this cooking or that cooking. I like good cooking.” – James Beard 

22. “Once you understand the foundations of cooking – whatever kind you like, whether it`s French or Italian or Japanese – you really don`t need a cookbook anymore.” – Thomas Keller 

23. “If you`re not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.” – Michael Strahan 

24. “The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.” – Yotam Ottolenghi 

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

26. “Cooking is an observation-based process that you can`t do if you`re so completely focused on a recipe.” – Alton Brown 

27. “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 B. Jones 

28. “In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.” – Curnonsky 

29. “Great cooking favors the prepared hands.” – Jacques Pepin 

30.”Cooking is at once child`s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.” – Craig Claiborne 

31. “Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.” – Craig Claiborne

32. “I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It`s a simple as that.” – Alton Brown 

33. “Cooking is one failure after another, and that`s how you finally learn.” – Julia Child 

34. “Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.” – Truman Capote  

35. “My two rules of cooking: keep it fresh and keep it simple.” – Michael Isabella 

More Cooking Quotes For A Fun & Pleasurable Experience

There are various reasons why people love to cook. It releases stress, is fun and stimulating and most importantly, people love to eat delicious food. It provides satisfaction to the mind and body. Talent in cooking comes a lot naturally, yet you can enhance it by learning various techniques. If done properly, it is the easiest way to lift up your spirits and foster happiness. Let us read some quotes related to the delightful experience of cooking-

36.”Cooking is revolution and creation.” – Simone De Beauvoir 

37. “Cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.” – Sylvia Townsend Warner 

38. “The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.” – Sophia Loren 

39. “Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.” – H. Jackson Brown 

40. “When you hear bacon cooking….that sizzling sound isn`t the fat cooking….that`s applause.” – Jim Gaffigan 

41. “Working in the kitchen is my soul and my life, and I love it. I`m not there because people expect to see me; I am there because I want to be.” – Heinz Beck 

42. “The person who makes the food—his physique, his food, his soul—is unique. It is like fingerprints or handwriting.” – Musa Dağdeviren 

43. “You have to be yourself when you are creating and cooking. You do what you need to do and you do it to the best of your ability.” – Leah Chase 

44. “My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook… Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.” – James Boswell 

45. “Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.” – Robert Burton 

Whether you are cooking for guests or having a family dinner, cooking boosts confidence and enhances your skills. Cooking done with respect is an act of joy and cooking done with passion is always appreciated

Serving food is another kind of art that should be done beautifully to make the experience wholesome.

You may use uniquely ceramic trays, fruit wands, or vegetable sticks. This is all for you to figure out according to your taste and suitability.

46. “There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they`re not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.” – Delia Smith 

47. “A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. ” – Elisa Schiaparelli 

48. “To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.” – Emily Post

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

50. “Non-cooks think it`s silly to invest two hours` work in two minutes` enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. ” – Julia Child