Subject: Food/Drink » Cooking

Marge, your cooking only has two moves: Shake and Bake.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

Rachel: Hey, Mon, look, I’m melting butter.

Monica: That’s great, Rach. You now have the cooking skills of a hot day.

(1964 – ) American actress, producer & director

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Men will cook if danger is involved.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director

How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue…and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake?… where does the glue go?"

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

In a family recipe that you discovered in an old book, the most vital measurement will be illegible.

The one ingredient you made a special trip to the store to get will be the one thing your guest is allergic to.

She was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.

(1563 – 1608) Italian Catholic priest

Fettuccine Alfredo: Macaroni and cheese for adults.

Char: Common method of cooking over a campfire.

Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can’t believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I’m still hungry.

Kissing don’t last: cookery do!

(1828 –1909) English novelist & poet

My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.

(1924 – 2003) American comedian & actor

I’m not going to say my wife can’t cook, but should toast have bones?

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

One night she told me to put out the garbage; I told her "you cooked it, you take it out."

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

[My mother] is the only woman in the world who makes gravy with the Rolaids crushed right into it.

(1937 – 2014) American co-host of radio show “Car Talk”

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

My wife’s such a bad cook, the dog begs for Alka-Seltzer.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor