50 cook phrases seasoned with lots of love and affection

A cook’s hands are like magic wands that transform food into flavors and moments.

The kitchen of a restaurant is a good place to welcome those who are half needy, half lost, half alone.

Paola Carosella

The most beautiful dish is not always the tastiest. Every cook knows that flavor is in the details.

A cook without his spices is like a musician without his instrument and a painter without his brush.

Do you know what cooking is? There are 350 techniques that merge and create bundles of preparations.

Ferran Adrian

A cook’s temple is the kitchen, his recipes are stories, tests, perseverance and his dishes are conquests of aromas and flavors.

Chief Di Manno

Cooking is one of the most ancient practices of human beings. Everyone has a sleeping cook inside of them.

For a cook, there is no greater satisfaction than sharing his creations and making those who eat smile smile.

If I cook with my daughter and my husband in the kitchen, the food tastes different, has another importance and it represents something else.

Paola Carosella

A cook who cooks with heart and soul always offers the best dish.

Just as we cannot please everyone, a cook will never please all palates.

For the cook, the kitchen is a playground: just grab the utensils, separate the ingredients and start having fun!

The cook is an eternal apprentice who learns something new with each recipe. Cooking is taking risks without fear.

The cook is not a star, he is a soldier trained to serve people.

Gaston Acurio

The cook is, above all, a seller of happiness.

Michel Bras

The good cook is the one who awakens our five senses and makes us taste a little piece of heaven.

Master a technique, but value the concept behind it more. That’s what I do with recipes.

Joan Roca

We should not call a professional who does not care about sustainability a chef or a cook. Cooking goes beyond the kitchen.

In each dish, the cook tells a little bit of his story and offers a part of himself to the other.

When we sit together and eat, we promote better understanding and harmony. Food brings love, peace and compassion to the table.

Chief Wan

Cooking is about rescuing memories, family and cultural traditions. A cook tells the story of his community in every dish he prepares.

The cook lives on adventures: he discovers flavors, reinvents recipes, combines ingredients, awakens emotions and offers pleasures.

Cooking is creating something delicious for someone else.

Ayumi Komura

In the kitchen, nothing comes out of nowhere, everything is transformed. The cook is the heritage of a people, a time and a space.

The cook is like an alchemist: he interacts with food, experiments and recreates a universe of flavors.

Cooking is, at the same time, a child’s game and a joy for adults. And cooking with care is an act of love.

Craig Claiborne

A cook is never alone. Even in his loneliest phase, he is surrounded by previous generations, the advice and menus of present cooks, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

Laurie Colwin

The best cook in the world will always be our grandmother. Nobody knows how to bake a cake like her.

The good cook is the one who sharpens our joy and, through aromas and flavors, awakens our affective memories.

No one is born a great cook, you learn by cooking.

Julia Child

Behind every delicious food, there is always a cook with a hand full. Remember to say thank you for the food.

A cook should be the president of the UN, because there is nothing better to unite and pacify a people than a table full of delicious food.

I think that preparing food and feeding people brings nutrition not only to our bodies, but also to our spirits.

Shauna Niequist

The good cook produces music with food: with each bite, a crunchy touch, unexpected and full of surprises.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation – experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in creative ways.

Paul Theroux

For a real cook, industrialized sauce is an offense. Preservatives kill the magic of the dish.

Cooking is therapy, it is discovering yourself in the most varied flavors. Let the cook in you come out!

Food is love. Food has power. I knew in my mind, but now I know in my heart.

Jael McHenry

When I’m in the kitchen, I’m at peace with myself. Much more than a profession, I am a cook by passion.

In the hands of a cook, vegetables, grains and greens are colored pencils. With great care and creativity, he prepares colorful dishes.

A recipe has no soul. You, as a cook, must give soul to the recipe.

Thomas Keller

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

Julia Child

Kitchen utensils are to the cook what the sword is to the warrior: they are sacred.

Cooking is about sustainability, it’s saying no to waste. Barks and stalks that many see as garbage, the good cook sees as an opportunity for creation.

Cooking is at the same time one of the simplest and most rewarding arts, but to cook well you have to love and respect food.

Craig Claiborne

Humility and simplicity are virtues that a cook can never fail to seek. Always sprinkle love on your creations.

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

The gourmetization of the world has separated food into individual portions and favored distancing people. The good cook likes to cook in a big pot and have the table always surrounded by laughter.