It’s not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn’t think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, ‘Why am I doing this?’ – Penny Jordan
I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant. – Romola Garai
The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it’s fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn’t remain beautiful. But I love marble. – Ruth Reichl
I did ‘The Frank Skinner Show,’ and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen. – Robert Webb
Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in the kitchen and winking and corpsing above the heads of our audience, the unsuspecting customers. – Richard Eyre
And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock. – Robert Grosseteste
Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn’t stop me being adventurous. – Paul O’Grady
I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where. – Olivia Newton-John
The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there. – Shakira
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting – the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness – or into waves of probability. – Robert Lanza
My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a ‘U’ in the middle of the living room and dining room. It’s not huge, because I don’t like huge kitchens. – Ruth Reichl
The kitchen is tough. It’s one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit. – Yotam Ottolenghi
At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I’m told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all. – Suresh Raina
Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off. – Tony Bennett
I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen. – Ted Allen
That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do. – Sally Schneider
It’s very important in a restaurant to really do the right hiring because there’s no restaurant that you have one cook and one chef and nobody else in the kitchen. Generally you have five, ten, 15 people with you. So that’s really important is to train them right, but first you have to hire the right people. – Wolfgang Puck
You want to be the baddest guy in the kitchen and you want the person next to you to know it. – Tom Colicchio
I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, ‘Have you got frog’s legs?’ He said, ‘Yes,’ so I said, ‘Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.’ – Tommy Cooper
I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That’s why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it. – Todd English
I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I’d want to do is hit them with a pot. – Tom Colicchio
I really feel like knife skills – not just in the kitchen, but in life – are really critical. – Timothy Ferriss
I’m in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it. – Ted Allen
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. – Zora Neale Hurston
When you’re writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much. – Timothy West
Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn’t feel right. – Trisha Yearwood
I realized I didn’t want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen. – Sally Schneider
