Cooking Quotes

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  My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

  Phyllis Diller

  Thanksgiving, Fun, Kids

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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  The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

  Julia Child

  Attitude, Block, Real

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Food, Health

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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• I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

  Julia Child

  Inspiration, Food, Home Cooking

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• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

  Federico Fellini

  Funny, Food, Home Cooking

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Kitchen, Needs

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• ...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

  Julia Child

  Funny Kitchen, Born, Cooks

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.261, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

  Sophia Loren

  Home, Ingredients, Home Cooking

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• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

  Ted Allen

  Food, Expression, People

  “Things a Man Should Know About Entertainzing” by Ted Allen, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

  Julia Child

  Drawing, People, Justice

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• Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

  Craig Claiborne

  Children, Food, Cooking Classes

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• Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

  Fannie Farmer

  Art, Mean, Self

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My interest in food really began with a months cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not an incredible cook, alas, but a real enthusiast. Food and cooking is at the core of entertaining, and my passion grew and grew.

  Pippa Middleton

  Real, Passion, Levels

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• It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Summer, Food, Garden

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• I guess I fell into cooking.

  Bobby Flay

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• What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!

  Nora Ephron

  Comforting, Hot, Add

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.133, Vintage

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• Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Food, Heart, Soup

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• Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Food, Kitchen, Development

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.354, Modern Library

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• I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Worry, Want

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• My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Funny, Food

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2010

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• In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

  Julia Child

  Sports, Art, Food

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