Patrice O'Neal Quotes

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

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.

The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

As a self-proclaimed cooking disaster, I try to makes things that I think I can easily master.

I am actually a very good cook (if I may say so myself). I just don't know that many recipes.

I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.

I'm a terrible cook.

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

Most of my education has been around food.

Sorry, I'm not much of a cook.

I'm actually a good cook.

I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

I'm a complete foodie, but I'm a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that's amazing.

I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

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.

I'm a better cook and more of a perfectionist than my mother.

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.

I'm not a strong cook. I can do the crockpot; that's about it.

I don't cook very often. Actually, I'd go further: I can't cook.

I think the first thing you should learn is how to roast a chicken. Once you can roast a chicken, you can pretty much figure out anything else. And who doesn't like roasted chicken? It's a classic.