A Quote by Michael Symon

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

Michael Symon

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Anything Cook Learn Recipe Technique

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Michael Symon
American - Chef
Born: September 19, 1969

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

Tom Colicchio

I always feel like a script is a recipe, and then you bring the elements into the recipe, and you cook with it.

David MacKenzie

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesnt mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now youre cooking.

Tom Colicchio

A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

Gail Simmons

I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

Eva Longoria

I'm no cook, but I love to eat. Usually, food tastes best when there isn't a recipe, just a cook who knows what foods and seasonings go well together.

Sandra Brown

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Thomas Keller

I'm not an amazing cook, but I can follow a recipe.

Rachel McAdams

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

Rachel McAdams

I cook a lot. I'm always experimenting. I'm not much of a recipe follower.

Erika Christensen

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

Julia Child

Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

Tim Ferriss

I decided to learn how to cook and cook I did. And I ate it all - and everyone else's food too.

Shirley Ballas

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.