Marco Pierre White Quotes

I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.

I never cook from cookbooks.

Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.

I just love to look at cookbooks, it's almost like they're comic books for me. I can't look at them before bed; it gets me too excited.

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.

I enjoy watching talented cooks bringing together ingredients into a fabulous dish.

I have always loved food. I began cooking for my family as a young girl, and to this day, it's one of my greatest pleasures in life.

I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

I hate to sound cliche, but I understand why people love to cook. It's fun!

At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes.

I do most of the cooking in my head.

I learned so much from 'Iron Chef' about ingredients, about the courage to put yourself out there.

I'm a very improvisational cook. I sort of like to make things up as I go along. I'm quite creative in the kitchen.

I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.

When I go out shopping and pass a bookstore, I always grab a couple of cookbooks, so I have a library of them. I end up keeping many that I got years and years ago because they work so well.

I really like getting the person who is terrified of cooking into the kitchen and showing them that cooking can be both indulgent and fun.

One of my dad's biggest passions is cooking, so we always had good food at home.