Katie Lee Quotes

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.

It's not that hard to make good food.

One pillar of my cooking is that salad dressing is sacred and that you always make it with the most delicious oil you can find. Usually, that means extra-virgin olive oil.

For me, the good food starts with good product.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.

My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people's kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget.

I like complicated dishes but also appreciate simple foods.

I am a very simple cook, I just do the minimum amount. I'm mostly a vegetarian, so I just steam a lot of vegetables.

My cooking style is simple, healthy, and very basic.

I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.

Good food is good food. It doesn't have to come with pretense.

Simplicity in preparation is the Italian way. Make easy dishes, and then you can elaborate the final preparation by decorating with vegetables or herbs or adding a dash of olive oil.

Like many other chef-entrepreneurs, I am convinced that fast food does not mean bad food.

Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.