At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother’s gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!
When I was a boy, I’d hide under the kitchen table and wind string around the chairs. I have a sense now that I am pulling on those threads. The more I pull, the more it comes unraveled.
If you only buy one kitchen gadget at uni, make it a NutriBullet.They’re relatively small and inexpensive, and they make it so incredibly easy to get all of your portions of fruit and vegetables every day.
When I was writing ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
The best advice for building up confidence in the kitchen – start small. Don’t go after the super intense Julia Child coq au vin recipe. Pick something simple and tackle it.
I chose a career in the kitchen because the thought of sitting and doing the same thing every day and being stationary was not something that I could get my head around.
I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people’s kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget.
Anywhere in the world, there is royal food, and there is commoner food. Essentially, eat at the restaurant or eat on the street. But Indian food evolved in three spaces. Home kitchens were a big space for food evolution, and we have never given them enough credit.
I’ve seen many amazing chefs, girls, come into the kitchen and then give it up to be with their boyfriend. Would he do that for her?
My mom knew that I was gay. So she just came up to me in the kitchen one night, and she said, ‘Justin, are you a homosexual?’ And I said, ‘Yes,’ and that was that. She took all the steps, she went to talk to a family counselor beforehand to see how she should bring it up, and now my mom’s my biggest fan.
Most of my work is based in Hyderabad, so it makes sense that I own a house here. Another reason I want a home here is because I want to have my own kitchen so that I can cook, since I hate food from hotels.
You have to be disciplined about being in the kitchen.
If there’s something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn’t want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.
We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can’t understand why they don’t throw themselves off the balconies.
My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.
You know, what I like about ‘The Family Tree’ is it’s a kitchen sink movie; you can’t think of anything that it doesn’t either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.
My happy place is having a Saturday morning while everybody else is just mooching about and I’ll do a big old batch cook and have music on in the kitchen.
The kitchen is tough. It’s one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
I wash my hands constantly in the kitchen, so they’re always dry.
I believe that a cook in a kitchen isn’t producing an entree: he’s producing a reaction. The product is the reaction; the entree is just the vehicle.
If I’m on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.
When I cook Thanksgiving in the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen, every tool I need is within arm’s reach, groceries are delivered, and colleagues know better than to talk to me when I have that look on my face.
I started working at a soup kitchen in skid row of Los Angeles when I was 13 years old, and the first day, I felt really scared. I was young, and it was rough and raw down there, and though I was with a great volunteer group, I just felt overwhelmed.
You can’t feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.
Whenever I’d find myself talking to someone in the kitchen of their home, I’d automatically rest my arm on the refrigerator, simply because it was most convenient. I had to watch myself pretty close – I didn’t mind the dusty sleeve, but that glare from the hostess was something else!
House of Blues has soul right down to the chef in the kitchen.
I usually write at my kitchen table, nothing exotic. I don’t need any equipment. I don’t have to organise anyone else to rehearse, and when I do a reading, lots of women and girls come, whereas gigs are dominated by men. Not against men, but I want to communicate to women.
When you hire a plumber because no hot water is coming out of the kitchen sink faucet, you need to go to the water heater, not the faucet.
I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we’ll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she’d put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.
I am not a cook at all. It wasn’t difficult to play a chef because it was not about knowing recipes. I just had to look comfortable in the kitchen.
In the future, I’m sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.
I hate fussing about in the kitchen when I have people over to supper, so I make a rich beef stew cooked in wine with carrots, sundried tomato paste and chopped chorizo sausage.
I’m a homebody, I’d rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.
I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning about something or other in the industry, so it was unglamourised and normalised for me from a very young age.
To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can’t think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I’d want to do is hit them with a pot.
I’m very interested in Queen Victoria’s younger years at Kensington Palace. She was born in the dining room because it had stairs down to hot water in the kitchen.
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I’ve got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I’m using to cook.
I think it’s safe to say I love cooking as much as I love sports. I love creating new dishes and just experimenting in the kitchen, but I never compromise on taste.
A lot of the songs in ‘See Jane Sing!’ are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.
I am a huge fan of porcelain in kitchens. It’s an easy, interesting material.
I feel most comfortable in an old pair of jeans, Converse, and a man’s jersey. My best friend cuts my hair with kitchen scissors.
I really didn’t have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn’t take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.
In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost £10 from eBay plus £70 delivery. It was because I’d seen an old photo of Tom Waits – with dirty dishes, empty bottles, a hot plate, a coffee machine and a piano strewn with lyric sheets – and fallen in love with it.
We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs who are in the kitchen.
I think being young and, like, 14, 15, you feel like a weirdo, and playing guitar with my grandpa in my grandma’s kitchen is probably my fondest memories I’ll ever have.
Everything happens in the kitchen. Life happens in the kitchen.
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: ‘Do the dishes while you’re cooking.’
I can’t work in a domestic kitchen; it’s just too confined. There’s no freedom, and there’s no buzz.
The most important thing for a date is not to prepare anything too complex because you’re likely to be a little bit too stressed. Also, she’s there to see you and not your plate of food. Spend as little time in the kitchen as possible.
Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that’s why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.
A guy friend and I went to California Pizza Kitchen, and a group of pretty girls came over to us and said, ‘You guys are gay, right?’
