Anoushka Shankar Quotes

I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

I don't cook, and I don't care to, but Gabrielle Hamilton made me realize that food is about love and connection. And she has had a hell of an interesting life.

I can cook, but I just don't.

I like a little chivalry; I like to receive flowers. I like taking care of a son and a husband, and in my judgment, those who recoil from these things don't know what they're missing.

My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.

I am not saying celebrity chefs don't encourage children to cook. However, their programmes are so entertaining, you end up stuffing your face with Pot Noodles instead of learning from them.

Anybody can cook for chefs. I cooked for a three Michelin star chef when I was cooking at home.

On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.

I guess housewives like to get away from reality and enjoy the fantasy world for a bit.

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

Anyone can cook, and most everyone should.

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

I'm really a very fifties housewife.

A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

As guilty and fun as it is to go through a drive-thru and get a cheeseburger or whatever, I just feel like you can make your own burger at home. You know what's going into it. You know where it came from. And it's just easy to go back and forth to those drive-thrus. Just kick that habit!

Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.