I am a terrible chef; I'm not a good cook. I don't have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook the way these great artists that I meet around the world cook, and I'm very, very happy to support them. I invest in restaurants because I love them so much.

Philip Rosenthal

A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.

Adam Mansbach

Good You Wrong

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

Alton Brown

Good Who Very

My mom wasn't a good cook. No, that was an understatement. She was really horrible. And in a Chinese family, that's a disaster.

Alvin Leung

Mom Men Good

I'm a really good cook. I bake a lot. I cook dinner most nights. I cook everything from Italian food to Mexican food. But if I'm going to some place and it's a potluck, I'm always the one to bring dessert!

Amanda Schull

Good Food Ways

Alan Arkin is a good cook.

Ann-Margret

Good OK La

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

Bobby Flay

History Good Family

I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.

Cameron Mackintosh

Life Good Week

The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.

Cat Cora

Work Home Good

Whether I was working or not, I am not a good cook or a good seamstress. I love my kids, and I provide for them, but do I think that I'm a great mom? Not by any means, other than that they're full of love. I rely heavily on nannies and my mother and my husband to fill in all over the place where I'm lacking.

Catherine Reitman

Work Mom Love

My mom's always been a good cook, so I took a lot of stuff from her, but most of the stuff I took from Emeril or Bobby Flay right off the TV and make it. I just loved to cook, so it just became a thing. It's a release. Even if I'm alone, I'll cook a full meal, maybe even a two-course meal, just because I love to cook. It's my secret love!

Christian Kane

Mom Love Good

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

Christopher Walken

Good Write T

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

Craig Claiborne

Men Home Good

My mom is an OK cook. She'll skewer me for saying that openly, because she claims to be a very good cook. She can make about, I don't know, 10 dishes, I think, which is four dishes more than I can make.

Dean Cain

Mom Good Yin

Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's food. It was amazing because it brings back a time almost in Technicolor. I see her house, I see her stove; I think about what it felt like when I was sick, and it felt like love.

Debi Mazar

Time Mom Love

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

Dolly Parton

Good Food You

I kind of do not like the word chef. Chef, giving you a sense of hierarchy and power. To be a good cook and to be a good leader, it has to come from within and to understand others.

Dominique Crenn

Power Good You

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Happiness Good Who

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.

Erin Morgenstern

Mom Men Good

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

Erin Morgenstern

Mom Men Good

I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.

Gaspard Ulliel

Love Good Food

I'm not sure I'm a good cook. But I like cooking, and it's a real family thing - an expression of love being together.

Genevieve O'Reilly

Sephardic Jews were always known as good cooks.

Gil Marks

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.

Heidi Klum

I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.

Jack Nicklaus

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

Jaime Pressly

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

James Beard

My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.

Jason Wu

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'm actually a good cook.

Jessica Simpson

We never got much in the way of material things, but if you can be spoiled by good cooking, my mom spoiled me three times a day all my life.

John Isner

I am actually a very good cook (if I may say so myself). I just don't know that many recipes.

Kyle Richards

Good cooking is good cooking, regardless of the price.

Lisa Hanawalt

My mom has a couple great tricks, but my father is consistently a good cook. He's extremely avid about health and fitness and a bit obsessive. He always talks about garden-fresh food.

Lizz Wright

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

Marcus Samuelsson

I'm actually a really good cook, and people don't believe this about me!

Mariah Carey

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

Martha Stewart

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

Maurice de Vlaminck

I eat the basic food groups: fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, good fats and oils. I do have butter on my bread because it's delicious. I eat meat, especially chicken, sparingly, because I'm not a good cook.

Maye Musk

I'm an actress, a writer, the editor-in-chief of my lifestyle brand 'The Tig', a pretty good cook, and a firm believer in handwritten notes.

Meghan Markle

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Michael Symon

My mum, she's a really good cook, she was our school cook as well, so in primary school. She was always cooking and in the kitchen so I've always been interested in it through her.

Michelle Keegan

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

Miranda Cosgrove

I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows.

Nora Ephron

I'm not a good cook, unfortunately. I've tried a few times, but I don't like it too much.

Petra Kvitova

I am a terrible chef; I'm not a good cook. I don't have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook the way these great artists that I meet around the world cook, and I'm very, very happy to support them. I invest in restaurants because I love them so much.

Philip Rosenthal

Now the look of the book dictates the sale. In my day you could still buy a good cookbook in paperback with no pictures at all. I doubt if that would sell today. But those books were much used: they lived in the kitchen and got splattered with custard and gravy.

Prue Leith

I'm a good cook, I am not a great cook. I'm an absolute fraud.

Prue Leith

I don't barbeque myself because that would involve me cooking. And whereas I can, I'm not a very good cook.

Reg E. Cathey

There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now.

Rick Wagoner

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

Robert Mondavi