Cooking Quotes - Page 39

• My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Careers, Microsoft, Way

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• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Water, Physics, Steak

  "Can I Eat That?" with David Pogue, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2012.

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• Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Art, Knowing, Technique

  "Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking". Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com.

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• The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Mind, Digital, Firsts

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• There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Odds, People, Technique

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• Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Water, Energy, Molecules

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• When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Mother, Book, Home

  "Can I Eat That?". Interview with David Pogue, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2012.

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• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Grandmother, Past, Ideas

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• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Children, Food

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils.

  Apolo Ohno

  Home, Eggs, Oil

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• Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Hippie, Eggs, Use

  "A natural in the kitchen" by Greg Morago, www.chron.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Tired, Government

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• An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

  Jacques Prevert

  Sweet, Food, Night

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• You don't come into cooking to get rich.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Rich, Get Rich

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• Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Men, Games, Giving

  "My Team". www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2002.

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• I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

  Rachael Ray

  Writing, Vacation, Eight

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• EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

  Rachael Ray

  Girl, Oil, Meals

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• You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Food, Character, Patriotic

  In New York Times 15 Jan. 1981

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• Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

  Robert Redford

  Food, Healthy, May

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• Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

  Helen Rowland

  Food, Men, Offering

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• I watch the Food Network with my kids. We - yeah, I - I - I generally don't admit that, but I love cooking.

  Rick Santorum

  Kids, Watches, Yeah

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• I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

  Shel Silverstein

  Believe, Food, Hands

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• I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Food, Vegetarianism, Environmental

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• I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.

  Grace Slick

  Food, Pigs, Cake

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• Do whatever rejuvenates you. It might be a cooking class, cocktails with the girls, or just private time with the hubby. We all have our moments where we run out of steam because we've given everything we've got to everyone else. Whoever decided that was a good thing? It's not. Everyone needs to refuel.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Girl, Running, Cooking Classes

  "What Jada Pinkett Smith Gave Up for Her Family". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. July 11, 2011.

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