A Quote by Nigella Lawson

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

Nigella Lawson

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Always Careful Cooking Room Tinkering

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Nigella Lawson
British - Journalist
Born: January 6, 1960

Cooking is not really safe for me because a pan of boiling water is about as big as I am, so I have to be really careful when I'm cooking not to spill it on myself.

Fredrick Brennan

When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

Sylvia Kristel

I think careful cooking is love, don't you?

Julia Child

You're always trying to get better. You're always tinkering. You're always learning new things.

Kyle Korver

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.

Nick Harkaway

I want to promote pastry. Pastry has always been in the background - it's always cooking, cooking, cooking on programs, and pastry has just been this thing at the end. I want to show people what we do.

Adriano Zumbo

I grew up cooking. I was always in my grandma's cooking, and I never thought of it as a career.

Katie Lee

I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.

David Crosby

My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true.

Roz Chast

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

Adam Gopnik

I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

Natalie Cole

Even cooking at home, the difference between my wife cooking and me cooking is major. When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks like a disaster. When I cook it's completely clean and organized and it doesn't look like anyone has been cooking in there.

Tom Colicchio

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Julia Child

I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.