Subject: Food/Drink » Cooking

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.”

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

The worst thing about accidents in the kitchen is that you usually have to eat them.


Don’t you think the road commissioner would be willing to pay my wife something for her recipe for pie crust?

(1872 – 1933) 30th U.S. president

While it may be true that a watched pot never boils, the one you don’t keep and eye on can make an awful mess on your stove.

(1820 – 1897) Mormon missionary

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

She was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Once a dish is fouled up, anything added to save it only makes it worse.

I don't wanna say we eat out a lot, but when I call my kids for dinner they run to the car!

American comedian

You shouldn’t be eating anything that takes six minutes to microwave.

(1964– ) American comedian, radio personality, actor, podcaster & director

Cookin’ With Coolio

Square meals often make round people.

American entrepreneur & author

Why, her cooking is so bad that the flies pitched in to fix the screen door.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

The difference between a chef and a cook is the difference between a wife and a prostitute; cooks do meals for people they know and love, chefs do it anonymously for anyone who’s got the price.

(1954 – ) British writer & critic

Char: Common method of cooking over a campfire.

Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler.

(1915 – 1977) American actor of stage and screen

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

When my mother had to get dinner for eight she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.

(1563 – 1608) Italian Catholic priest

She did not so much cook food as assassinate food

English writer