My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.

- Alain Ducasse

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.

- Alton Brown

'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

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

- Alton Brown

When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.

- Alice Waters

When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

- Alice Waters

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

- Alice Waters

With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.

- Alain Ducasse

When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster.

- Alain Ducasse

The world of wine is more creative than the world of cooking.

- Alain Ducasse

'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.

- Action Bronson

I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.

- Alain Ducasse

I do most of the cooking in my head.

- Alain Ducasse

Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate. You can mix two styles and get fusion; any more, and you just get confusion.

- Alain Ducasse

I always hated watching cooking shows where the chef would use ingredients that I couldn't get my hands on, cooking implements that I couldn't afford, recipes that I could never have access to.

- Adam Richman

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

- Anthony Bourdain

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

- Anthony Bourdain

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

- Akshay Kumar

I can cook because my life depended on it when I lived in Thailand. Either I learnt cooking, or I learnt how it felt to starve. I chose cooking.

- Akshay Kumar

I have a great time cooking and eating Thai green chicken curry.

- Akshay Kumar