Cooks Quotes - Page 24

• Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Lasts, Moments, Preps

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• Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Romantic, Two, Dating

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• I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

  Paz Vega

  Hollywood, Spain, Pieces

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• It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning to cook was part of my journey toward actualization. I would love to tell Oprah this. I would love to tell Oprah this while weeping. But I learned to cook for a much simpler reason: in the abject hope that people would spend time with me if I put good things in their mouth. It is, in other words (like practically everything else I do), a function of my desperation for emotional connection and acclaim.

  Steve Almond

  Emotional, Journey, Self

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• Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

  Josef Albers

  Color, Differences, Cooking

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• Place a lump of fresh butter in a pan or egg dish and let it melt - that is, just enough for it to spread, and never, of course, to crackle or sit; open a very fresh egg onto a small plate or saucer and slide it carefully into the pan; cook it on heat so low that the white barely turns creamy, and the yolk becomes hot but remains liquid; in a separate saucepan, melt another lump of fresh butter; remove the egg onto a lightly heated serving plate; salt it and pepper it, then very gently pour this fresh, warm butter over it

  Fernand Point

  Eggs, White, Hot

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• A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Chef, Dishwashers

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• There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

  Fernand Point

  Garden, People, Claims

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• After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook.

  Tia Mowry

  Pregnancy, Allergies, Yeast

  "Hey, Game Fans! Tia Mowry Just Dished To Me On Her Current Obsession (Hint: It's Stuffed) And The Weirdest Thing In Her Louis Vuitton" by Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. January 10, 2012.

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• Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

  Andre Simon

  Encouragement, Morning, Art

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• But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.

  Gladys Taber

  Jobs, Fun, Lying

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• If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

  Tim Ferriss

  Opposites, What If, Defining

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• Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Fire

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• Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you’ve come to expect from Jessica Alba.

  Chelsea Handler

  Good Luck, Laughing, Today

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• Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

  Coolio

  Food, Cooking, Taste

  Coolio (2009). “Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to live with two other guys. We used to cook two things. The first one was called 'cheese... thing' and that was where you get something and you melt cheese over it and the first one to guess what it is doesn't have to wash up. That's obviously quite Mediterranean; the other one was less complex. It was just called 'cheese fantasy.' That's where you come in, very drunk, at about five in the morning and find an apple and just pretend there's some cheese on it.

  Dylan Moran

  Morning, Two, Apples

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• It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing...[such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Jesus, Drinking

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• The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

  Louis Nizer

  Atheist, Believe, Giving

  Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”

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• She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

  Storm Jameson

  Cooking

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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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• The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If well made....they prove that both skill and taste have been exerted in its arrangements. When coarsely or carelessly prepared....they greatly discredit the cook.

  Eliza Acton

  Skills, Differences, Cooking

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• Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Ivory, Cooking, Encounters

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Food, Cooking, Kitchen

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.354, Modern Library

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• A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.

  George Ellwanger

  Skills, Cooking, Excellence

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