Subject: Food/Drink » Cooking (Page 4)

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

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

While it may be true that a watched pot never boils, the one you don’t keep and eye on can make an awful mess on your stove.

(1820 – 1897) Mormon missionary

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

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

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

(1870 – 1916) British writer

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

My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

How do you like yer possum… fallin' off the bones tender or with a little fight left in it?

(1902 – 1973) American actress

The worst thing about accidents in the kitchen is that you usually have to eat them.


You are always complimented on the item that took the least effort to prepare. Example: If you make roast turkey, you will be complimented on the baked potato.

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

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

My wife has to be the worst cook; her specialty is indigestion.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Friccastewing a chicken on the hotplate.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

My husband says I feed him like he's a god: every meal is a burnt offering.

(1951 – ) American stand-up comic & actress

I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook… after dinner, I don't brush my teeth, I count them.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction: I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen.”

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

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

Her cooking is the missionary position of cooking… that is how everybody starts.

(1915 – 2010) Hungarian-born food critic