Cooking Quotes - Page 6

• The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

  Julia Child

  Imagination, Kitchen, Ends

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• You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

  Julia Child

  Spring, Training, Naked

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• Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

  Alton Brown

  Food, Recipes, Chef

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• Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found.

  Rose Macaulay

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.75, A&C Black

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• Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

  Marilyn Kaytor

  Food, Taken, Old Friends

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• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, People, Chef

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• In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

  Curnonsky

  Art, Simple, Perfection

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• I love being at home and cooking and baking.

  Blake Lively

  Home, Love Is, Baking

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• If you think well, you cook well.

  Ferran Adria

  Thinking, Cooks, Wells

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• A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Good Woman, Artistic, Made

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• Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sauce, Sin, Bachelors

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

  E. V. Lucas

  Food, Shadow, Substance

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• When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Intelligence, Friendly

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• My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.

  William of Norwich

  Mother, Food, Keys

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• Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.

  Waverley Root

  Country, Art, Food

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• Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Wells

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

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• It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Life, Thinking, And Love

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

  Storm Jameson

  Cooks

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• Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Home Cooking, Entrepreneur

  1595 Servingman to Capulet. Romeo andJuliet, act 4, sc.2, l.6.

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• Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

  Bobby Flay

  Fishing, Hamburgers, Ingredients

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• I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Fun, Food, Kitchen

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• I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mom, Mother, Memories

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• I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

  Emeril Lagasse

  School, Pay, Scholarship

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• I like being at home and cooking.

  Shania Twain

  Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

  Martin Yan

  Patience, Kids, Vegetables

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