Cooks Quotes - Page 13

• Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Skills, Knowing, Cooking

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

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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, Cooking, Physics

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

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• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Two, Squares, Long

  "Microsoft's Former CTO Takes on Modernist Cuisine" by Mark McClusky, www.wired.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Grandma, Water, Interesting

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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

  Cooking, Mind, Digital

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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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• I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

  Rachel Nichols

  Know How, Knows

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• I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Sweet, Two, Three

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

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• Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

  Michelle Obama

  Couple, Night, Lunch

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• I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

  Jamie Oliver

  Age

  "'Do you like baked beans?'". Interview with Judith Easton, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.

  Patton Oswalt

  College, Eggs, Two

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• I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

  Jane Pauley

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

  Amanda Peet

  Spinning, Tanning, Figures

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• I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'

  Jacques Pepin

  Two, Watches, Next

  "Chef Jacques Pepin Eats Airport Hot Dogs, Rarely Spends More than $12 on Wine". The Bon Appétit Magazine Interview, www.bonappetit.com. November 14, 2011.

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• My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

  Jacques Pepin

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Excited, Achieve, Stills

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• When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Running, New York, Down And

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• When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Perfection, Pressure, Trade

  "Interview with Gordon Ramsay About Masterchef". Interview with Brett Moore, www.thespruce.com. November 17, 2016.

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• Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Successful, Footballer, Could Have Been

  "Gordon Ramsay on Rangers". www.theguardian.com. May 05, 2002.

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• I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Girl, Guy, Kitchen

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

  Rachael Ray

  Dream, Dog, Sweet

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• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  Rachael Ray

  Husband, Air, Feelings

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• I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

  John C. Reilly

  Kids, Play, Imagination

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• I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

  Chris Rock

  Nice, Book, Tables

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• I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

  ASAP Rocky

  Causes, Know How, Knows

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