The Best Cooking Quotes of all Time

If your big dream is to become a renown chef, then take note of this collection of the best cooking quotes of all time to inspire you, curated by the Bravojoy review team.

“Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.” – Jeff Smith

“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.” – Marcel Boulestin

“Cuisine has become too complicated — this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.” – Alain Ducasse

“Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.” – Marilyn Wann

“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.” – James Beard

“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” – Adelle Davis

“Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter and in wine.” – Polish Proverb

“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.” – Julia Child

“Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.” – Elizabeth Robbins Pennell

“When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.” – Laiko Bahrs

“The greatest dishes are very simple.” – Auguste Escoffier

”Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” – Federico Fellini

“Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.” – James Patterson

“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” – David Mamet

”Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.” – Jo Brand

”The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.” – Dione Lucas

”Fat gives things flavor.” – Julia Child

“Cooking is an observation-based process that you can’t do if you’re so completely focused on a recipe.” – Alton Brown

“I think every woman should have a blowtorch.” – Julia Child

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