Cooking Quotes - Page 9

• Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Cheese, Meat

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• No one who cooks cooks alone.

  Laurie Colwin

  Cooking Classes, Home Cooking, Chefs Cooking

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• Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Grandmother, Nutrition

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.1, Penguin

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• I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Adventure, Oysters

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.6, A&C Black

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• Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Funny, Food, Health

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• Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

  Unknown

  Horse, Food, Garden

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• In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

  Bryan Volpenhein

  Perfect, Goal, Focus

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• If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Love, Food, Heart

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• The people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Food, Heart, Eating Good

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Sex, Food

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• The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

  Jo Brand

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Hurt, Drinking, Food

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• You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Food, Eating Good, Needs

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• Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

  Henry James

  Food, Sprinkles, Garbage

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• A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Food, Wine

  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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• A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Happiness, Food, Home Cooking

  1954 A Shocking Life, ch.21.

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• We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.

  Anna Thomas

  Food, Opportunity, Would Be

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• Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

  Don Kardong

  Sports, Food, Inspiration

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• Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

  Socrates

  Life, Drinking, Reality

  "The Skinny Budget Die". Book by Linda Goff, 2013.

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• The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

  Fanny Fern

  Sex, Food, Heart

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.32, Rutgers University Press

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• This is every cook's opinion -
  no savory dish without an onion,
  but lest your kissing should be spoiled
  your onions must be fully boiled.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Kissing, Onions

  Jonathan Swift, “Market Women’s Cries”

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• I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a million years. My mother tried to interest me in a variety of suitable alternatives from a list Effie Trinket sent her. Cooking, flower arranging, playing the flute. None of them took, although Prim had a knack for all three. Finally Cinna stepped in and offered to help me develop my passion for designing clothes, which really required development since it was non-existent.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Flower, Passion

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

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• The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

  Erma Bombeck

  Wall, Food, Track

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