Cooking Quotes to Rekindle Your Inner Chef

Those who love cooking are truly lucky, as well as their families and friends. It is a great experience that makes you happy and makes others happy as well. If you love cooking, keep up the passion.

In this post, we have collected best and famous cooking quotes by famous chefs across the globe. If cooking is your passion, you’ll notice that you’re spending more time cooking, planning to cook, and serving that cooked food than you are other activities in your life. So let us appreciate what we all love to do!

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Best Sayings about Food by Famous Chefs

Food quote — Paul Prudhomme
“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.”

If you love food just as much as you eat it, you’re in good company here. Check out the sayings from famous chefs such as Julia Child, Sophia Loren, Virginia Woolf and more.

John Gunther
“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”

Paul Prudhomme
“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.”

Coco Chanel
“I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.”

Barbara Johnson
“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.”

Harriet Van Horne
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”

Julia Child
“People who love to eat are always the best people.”

François de la Rochefoucauld
“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”

Anna Thomas
“We all eat, an it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.”

Judith Olney
“Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed and puts them in your debt.”

Voltaire
“Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”

Julia Child
“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.”

Irish Proverb
“Laughter is brightest where food is best.”

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

Lewis Grizzard
“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”

Virginia Woolf
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if not has not dined well.”

Cooking Captions to Get Inspired

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A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces, just good food from fresh ingredients.

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors — it’s how you combine them that sets you apart

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don’t realize it. Even if you’re not a great chef, there’s nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn’t.

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It’s a simple as that.

Nobody thinks it’s silly to invest two hours’ work in two minutes’ enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so is the ballet.

Cooking Quotes to Inspire Inner Chef

People want honest, flavorful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.
Ted Allen

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli

I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It’s a simple as that.
Alton Brown

Nobody thinks it’s silly to invest two hours’ work in two minutes’ enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so is the ballet.
Julia Child

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
William Shakespeare

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.
Ferran Adria

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Laurie Colwin

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
Julia Child

Funny Sayings about Cooking

Below you’ll find a collection of wise and humorous quotes about cooking.

Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Craig Claiborne

I cook. My favorite thing to make is love.
Jarod Kintz

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
Julia Child

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
Truman Capote

…no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
Julia Child

I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.
Shauna Niequist

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation — experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.
Paul Theroux

Invest in what’s real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn’t have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.
Gwyneth Paltrow

I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I knew it in my mind, but now I know it in my heart.
Jael McHenry

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.
Alice Waters

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
Craig Claiborne

Quotes to Celebrate Joy of Cooking from the Heart

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
Maya Angelou

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors — it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.
Wolfgang

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
Wolfgang Puck

I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food.
W.C. Fields

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
Julia Child

Cooking is about creating something delicious for someone else.
Ayumi Komura

A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe.
Thomas Keller

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Horne

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

How to Get Inspired by Cooking Quotes?

We had lot of fun and satisfaction while collating these famous quotes and captions on cooking and food. If you are fond of cooking, you can get inspired by planning few things:

Memorize these quotes, pin them, or print them out and tack them up all over your kitchen.

Let us know how you love to use these quotes and which is most inspiring one for you!