Marcella Hazan Quotes

• Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

  Marcella Hazan

  Art, Food, Cooking

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• What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

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  People, World

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• Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

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  Art, Italian, Age

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• The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

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  Mother, Children, Fall

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• And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.

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  Passion, Fire, Long

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• [On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

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  Cooking, Significant

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• I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.

  Marcella Hazan

  Smell, Cooking, Sound

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• I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.

  Marcella Hazan

  Heart, Use, Flavor

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• Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

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  Art, Home, Accomplishment

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• In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.

  Marcella Hazan

  Italian, Long, Kitchen

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• 80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.

  Marcella Hazan

  Italian, Cooking, Done

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