I'm a bit of a dynamite fisherman when it comes to cooking as I don't have the patience, but I am a huge foodie.
Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.
I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking with my mother at a hot stove when I was five. But the truth is I wanted to cook. Cooking meant being near food.
When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.
When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.
We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.
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 love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.
Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.
