My family and I cook at home almost every day together. The kitchen is the central and most important room in the house; it’s a great way for us to connect. We love going to the farmer’s market on Sundays as a family and choosing the ingredients together.
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.
Being a vegetarian Buddhist would be a bit harsh to deal with in the kitchen, so I’m a Taoist, I study martial arts, and I don’t drink or smoke.
My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We’re trying to give our kids a sense of what’s going into their bodies, and it’s also good for family time.
I’ve never worked in anyone else’s kitchen, but at college there was a guy called Tom Chivers who was a great chef and I learned a lot from him.
The food wasn’t very good in the first kitchen I ever worked in. But it was very busy, so I learnt to be fast, absorb pressure, use a knife, and say, ‘Yes, chef.’
I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman’s kitchen and take care of a white man’s child. I knew I would starve to death rather than do either.
I haven’t raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won’t have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they’ll get disciplined.
I simply believe food is too good to throw away – and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.
It’s the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.
Nike Air Zooms are what I usually run in. In the kitchen, I wear a beaten-up pair of Converse All-Stars in winter and Keds in summer.
I spend a lot of time in our kitchen. I find it the cosiest, friendliest place in the house. It’s not something my American upbringing prepared me for, but now that I live in England, it’s become very important to me.
Over the years, quite a few TV producers proposed that I do a program, but I refused. I didn’t want to work on a set that looked like a theater; I wanted a kitchen of the sort every chef dreams about.
As a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
The kitchen is a place I know well. It’s my favorite room wherever I am living, and it has to be completely open and social.
I don’t recommend this, but my dad – to help us get through the winter, he bought a kerosene heater, and he had it in the kitchen so that the furnace wouldn’t have to kick off.
When I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The older you get, you figure out you don’t need to do that. You realize at a certain point, there’s a certain gravity to what you say and what you do. If that’s not enough, all the yelling in the world is not going to matter.
My wife and I like to cook, so we actually prepare our own meals often and can hold our own in the kitchen.
I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that’s about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time – make a chicken or slice vegetables – and all day long I just read it over and over and over.
My mum was slightly disgruntled with cooking and being in the kitchen.
It was the era when women were in the kitchen. Space travel was the old-boy network.
The kitchen oven is reliable, but it’s made us lazy.
Efficiency is key to a successful kitchen. Clean your station as you go. Make yourself aerodynamic. Buy the best. Taste ingredients as you go.
Occasionally I volunteer in the kitchen of a pop-up supper club in L.A., which I really love. It’s like being a line cook in a great restaurant for one night at a time.
A lot of my great memories are formed around food in the kitchen, sitting down with friends and family. It just makes everyone happy, the conversation flows.
I usually have a driver, or take a taxi. But I’m down to earth. I like to clean the kitchen, I iron and wash my wife’s car! I just don’t usually take trains.
They asked me to go on ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ but I’m banned from reality TV by my wife. She’s not up for that kind of tomfoolery.
I like serving family-style or setting up a buffet. Everyone just goes to town, scoops their own food, and mixes their own drinks. You know how people love to come and watch you in the kitchen now and talk your ear off? If you give them something to do and something to drink, they don’t do that as much.
My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. ‘I’d like to thank the Academy,’ I said with a ketchup bottle.
After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.
I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
What feats of ingenuity have we not been forced to perform, at times, in order to meet our customers’ wishes? Those only who have had charge of a large, modern kitchen can tell the tale.
That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.
If you know what you’re doing, you can make a meal happen with any kitchen knife. But using a top-quality knife versus a low-quality one is the difference between driving a Jaguar and a VW Jetta across the country. They’ll both get you there. But the Jaguar will give you a much smoother ride.
I can’t live without my cup of tea. When I was a judge on ‘America’s Next Top Model,’ they had to put me in a hotel where I had my own kitchen, because they can’t make tea in America. I was happy then because I could make my own.
For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.
I can’t stay friends with anyone who doesn’t have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I’ve known are also men of great wit.
In a job where you’re on a computer all day, and we cater lunch and we put snacks in the kitchen, well, we all started gaining weight, even though we try to pick healthy stuff, but inevitably you find the cashews.
If you bring in actors right when you’re breaking story, it has a ‘too many cooks in the kitchen’ effect.
I like cooking but I don’t know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad.
Use your imagination. Look around the kitchen and see what you can use.
Paint and new flooring are simple refreshers. But it’s not worth it to update all the kitchen cabinets if it’s still the same bad layout.
I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
When I hear the words ‘Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,’ I think, ‘What. A. Dream.’ There are no negative connotations to it.
I’m Beanie, and I’m terrible in the kitchen, so I just need so much help. And I’m allergic to dairy, so vegan food is a love of mine.
I like to dance. I always make my husband dance with me when we are in the kitchen to whatever gets us moving. One my favorite is bands is Mana, but I like all kinds of music.
When I was growing up, I was regularly involved in local activities such as food collections, food kitchens, and other initiatives.
I cook as much as I eat, and I like the aroma that comes out of a kitchen.
I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
I couldn’t care less about league tables. I’m more interested in kitchen tables and conference room tables.
We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.
I do like to cook; I’m sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.
