Quotes of: Good-cook Keyword

Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.

David Chang

Writing is like cooking. You toss in a bunch of ingredients and hope the combination of flavors will appeal to someone's taste.

Dee Leone

I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.

Julia Child

Happy is fishing, boating, running, volleyball, cooking, dancing, playing the piano, gardening…as long as you remember it is.

JoAnn Fastoff

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

Jill Lepore

And if you had an, an opportunity to have a hot meal, you did. That was the cook. But you didn't stop and say, This is dinnertime and Oh wait it's five o'clock, it's time to eat for supper.

Chingy

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

Elaine Pagels

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

Gail Simmons

Harry Bailey: Say, where's Mother? George Bailey: She's home cooking the fatted calf.

It's a Wonderful Life

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

Nicole Scherzinger

I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.

Padma Lakshmi

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

Gene Simmons

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

Anton Chekhov

Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.

Hamilton Jordan

Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

Laura Osnes

I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes and little animals and is honest and not vain or fame-...

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Percy Wetmore: What's up his ass? Paul Edgecomb: You, always, you Percy. Percy Wetmore: What I got a hate in you boy, that the way it is around here? Paul Edgecomb: Why don't you just move on and take that job down in Briar Ridge? Oh yeah, I know all...

The Green Mile

A good dog does not bite a chicken and a good man does not hit his wife.

Chinese

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? The tale tells how the Lords of Man...

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