Cooks Quotes

• Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

  Truman Capote

  Cooking, Way, Culinary

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.61, Modern Library

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• I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Hate

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.29, Da Capo Press

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• Never trust a skinny cook.

  Iain Hewitson

  Food, Skinny, Never Trust

  "Never Trust a Skinny Cook: Huey's Culinary Travelogue". Book by Iain Hewitson, 2005.

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• Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

  Charles Buck

  Kitchen, Tables, Shrines

  Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.164

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• Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

  Julia Child

  Work, Women, Food

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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• I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Wife, Alarms

  They're not laughing now ..., www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

  Famke Janssen

  Order, People, Groceries

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• And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.

  Sandra Oh

  Kitchen, Together, Equal

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

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• I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

  Joely Fisher

  Winning, Awards, Turkeys

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

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• I think every young cook wants to write a book.

  Thomas Keller

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

  Ellen Barkin

  Husband, Thinking, Three

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• The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

  Richard J. Daley

  Party, Political, Politics

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• I hate to cook and love to eat.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Hate, And Love, I Hate

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• A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Perfect, Cooking, Brain

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.49

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• I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

  Anna Held

  Proud, Ability

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• I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them.

  Tony Danza

  Giving Up, People, Ems

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

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• Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

  Steve Albini

  Rocks, Cooking, Musician

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• I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

  Rick Larsen

  Children, Sleep, Leaving

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• It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Food, Men

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• I had to have a large kitchen because I look to cook

  Traci Bingham

  Kitchen, Looks

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• It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.

  Bobby Flay

  Moving, Important, Sticks

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• I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

  Groucho Marx

  Hate, Book, Thinking

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.29, Da Capo Press

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• I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

  Suzanne Somers

  Careers, Three, Done

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.

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• Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it,
  just loves it.
  He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

  Ted Allen

  Party, People, Guests

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• I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

  Eric Allman

  Wine, Long Walks, Good Food

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