Cooks Quotes - Page 2

• I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

  Debi Mazar

  Queens, Husband, Italian

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Historical, Technique, Recipes

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• I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

  Robert Runcie

  Thinking, People, Saint

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• In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Toil, Noble, Facts

  "31 More Questions With Tony Bourdain" by Gregory Cartier, www.askmen.com.

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• There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

  Delia Smith

  Art, Games, People

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• We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

  Greg Walden

  Poison, Use, Flow

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• I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

  Tom Colicchio

  Running, Kitchen, Chef

  Interview with Joel Keller, tv.avclub.com. March 16, 2011.

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• I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.

  Curtis Stone

  Monday, Thinking, Vegetables

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• I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Worry, Cooking

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• There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

  Mario Batali

  Funny, Art, Thinking

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• Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Men, Cooking

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• The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

  Pearl Bailey

  Cooking, Preparation, Ingredients

  Pearl Bailey (1973). “Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook”, Harcourt

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• If you think well, you cook well.

  Ferran Adria

  Thinking, Cooking, 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

  Cooking, Good Woman, Artistic

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• Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

  Marie Windsor

  Devil, Littles, Busy

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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, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, “Market Women’s Cries”

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• At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Lying, Knives, Roots

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• I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

  Alton Brown

  Cooking, Stories, Way

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• It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Literature, Easier

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, January 2, 1894.

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• Too many cooks spoil the broth

  Jane Austen

  Food, Haste Makes Waste, Chinese

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.2567, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When I cook, my brain stops completely.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Brain

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• I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.

  Jilly Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Generous

  "My favourite table" by Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

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• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  Ted Allen

  Cooking, Asian, Noodles

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

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• Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

  W. H. Auden

  Food, Cooking, Murder

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• As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

  Mario Batali

  Knives, Eating, Forks

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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