To be honest, I was the world's worst vegetarian. You see - I didn't really like vegetables very much. I'd spent most of my childhood terrified of them - horrid bland mushy things. It's only as an adult I realise that part of the problem is my mother's cooking - she hates using salt and has a tendency to overboil things. Thanks, Mum.
Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
Hospitality and cooking are my passion, and I love nothing more than seeing someone's face when they taste an unforgettable bite.
Sushi is something very exclusive. It is not like a McDonald's, not like a hot dog, not like a French fry. It's very high-class cooking in Japan.
The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
I really like getting the person who is terrified of cooking into the kitchen and showing them that cooking can be both indulgent and fun.
Cooking is a dangerous thing for me. I'm pretty inept in the kitchen.
Inexpensive and forgiving, kosher salt is fantastic for everyday cooking and tastes pure.
The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.
That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.
I can't do one thing at a time. If I'm writing song lyrics, I've got to be doing the ironing or cooking or something while I'm working. If I just sit there and stare at the walls, I get nothing.
I'm good in the garden and I can do the cooking, ironing and cleaning, but I can't hang wallpaper or paint.
Yes, I remember as a child, I would potter around my mother in the kitchen and want to participate in everything she was doing. I have learnt most of my cooking from her. I also used to irritate her with a lot of questions.
I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.
I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a place called the Gran Centurions. It was an Italian-American swim club my parents belonged to.
I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place.
I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.
I'm really boring. I think about cooking all the time. I have a little book, so when I go out or see something, I jot it down and try to include it in a recipe or do a variation of it. I even have a notepad by my bed, which is usually saying we're running out of mango chutney.
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
As parents are usually working, they haven't time to teach children about cooking, and it's a wilderness. They should be given healthy recipes - some standbys so that when they leave home, they don't live on junk.
