Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding - the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame.
Cooking's my hobby.
I remember loving food tech because of the precision and the creativity, the weights and measures, the tiny glimpses of flavour.
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it all.
Cooking, I mean, food, cooking foods is just everything that I do from morning to night. It's how I choose to live my life: through cooking, people that are in food culture. And I love it.
I'm sick of all these boring cooking shows.
Eating is the secret to good cooking.
When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes.
Beef is best served like steak: Well done, get a gun in ya face.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.
I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel.
Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.
I was watching TV and saw the 'Emeril' show, and it spoke to me. I went out and started researching the culinary world and chefs that I knew nothing about. Then I moved to New York and went to culinary school, and everything just fit like a glove. It's been on ever since.
I guess I fell into cooking.
My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.
I can cook about two things. I can boil hot water for the only pasta I can make.
I wanted to master the art of cooking. Maybe, when I slow down and do one or two films a year, I will learn how to cook and pursue it as my hobby.
The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.
I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.
I've never taken a cooking class. I've never gone to a cooking show. I've never read a recipe in my life.
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen
