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I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
Ted Allen

Love, Home, Food

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

Love, Same, Rather

You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.
Paula Deen

Friends, Wine, Worry

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.
Paula Deen

Life, School, Busy

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!
Paula Deen

Love, Long, Wonderful

I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.
Paula Deen

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.
Giada De Laurentiis

Learning, Children, Made

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.
Giada De Laurentiis

Smart, Almost, Model

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.
Giada De Laurentiis

Love, Food, Mother

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.
Giada De Laurentiis

Time, Rock, Thought

My sister is a masseuse, so we trade - she gives me massages and I give her prepared meals. It's a great system I'd recommend: Cook or babysit for a friend in exchange for one of her skills.
Giada De Laurentiis

Great, Friend, Give

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
Natalie Wood

Money, Learn, Won

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
Bill Vaughan

Home, Wonderful, Makes

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.
Robert Duvall

Salt, Argentina

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.
Adam Carolla

Good, Food, Sorry

I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.
Gordon Ramsay

Down, Different, Young

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.
Gordon Ramsay

Successful, Definitely, Achieved

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.
Gordon Ramsay

Down, Trying, Storm

I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.
Gordon Ramsay

Create, Achieve, Excited

One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I'm Swiss. It's a great social meal.
Ryan Seacrest

Great, Social, Favorite

I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
Jack Nicklaus

Good, Passion, Might

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Michael Palin

Love, Great, Art

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
Rachel McAdams

Amazing, Follow, Recipe

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.
Jacques Pepin

Yourself, Same, Learn

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
Jeffrey Kluger

Love, Family, Eat

Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!
Alton Brown

Evil, Nothing, Why

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.
Alton Brown

Men, Dark, Path

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.
Alton Brown

Home, Try, Around

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
Padma Lakshmi

Love, Food, Woman

I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.
Gwyneth Paltrow

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