Michael Pollan Quotes

I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.

My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life.

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

I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself. I think I could survive a week without eating.

If everyone could just cook properly I wouldn't have a problem.

I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.

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

Before I had my own restaurant, I was never top dog in the kitchen. I've always had a low opinion of myself as a cook.

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.

I'm a rather crude cook.

Why do men think they know how to cook outside when they haven't the smallest idea how to go about it indoors?

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

I know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically.

I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows.

God, Americans know how to cook.

No one makes better scrambled eggs than me.

My mom is an OK cook. She'll skewer me for saying that openly, because she claims to be a very good cook. She can make about, I don't know, 10 dishes, I think, which is four dishes more than I can make.

Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.

Every man must know how to cook; this is the first thing that we are taught back home.

I was always a good cook from my mum showing me when I was a young lad, but hiring a chef helped me to understand food better.

My husband is not in the slightest bit domesticated, but as the years go, by he's getting better. He can make an excellent omelette.

I'm a good cook, but I can't bake.