M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

The French cook; we open tins.

I love to cook and read books.

A lot of my friends at home call me 'Chef G.'

I love to cook, and both Pancham and Gulzarbhai loved to eat. Gulzarbhai loves my karela ghosht and my Bengali kheer.

I used to be a chef.

I'm a good operator: good with food and good with math.

A couple of my friends told me to get into cooking but I have not been able to get myself into the kitchen.

Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove

I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life — every aspect of it. So, in some ways, the thought of not being able to do that anymore radically affects your life.

Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

I learned to cook by watching and helping my mother in the kitchen. I also learned by trial and error. Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.

FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

My wife has to be the worst cook. I don't believe meatloaf should glow in the dark

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted

I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to the kitchen - but nobody ever wanted me to touch anything.

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.