Cooking Analogy Quotes

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

When I cook at home, most of the people I cook for want to be in the kitchen while I'm cooking. I love nothing more than someone monitoring how much salt I put into something, how much pepper I add - but nothing that you can offer is going to sway how I decide to deliver information to you; you'll either receive it or you won't.

Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Sometimes you just dread reading scripts; it's like the chef who doesn't want to cook at home.

I sometimes compare making a film to cooking. Some dishes need to be stewed, while others need to be fried.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.