Cooks Quotes - Page 36

• Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Home, Trying, Places To Go

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• A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a....turkey....in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Turkeys, Inspire, Soul

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• At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Book, Home, Gone

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

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• Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good, the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

  Mark Morris

  Cooking, Problem, Restaurants

  "Excerpts From an Interview With Mario Batali and Mark Morris". Interview with Julie Bloom, www.nytimes.com. February 23, 2010.

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• If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Art, Writing

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.

  Ina Garten

  Women, People, Giving

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• Sometimes shows suffer from having many cooks in the kitchen.

  Nick Kroll

  Kitchen, Suffering, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every cook must learn to rule the State.

  Vladimir Lenin

  States

  "Woman's Place by Florence Becker". New International, Vol. 2 No. 5, pp.175-176, August 1935.

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• In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

  Mario Batali

  Growing Up, Weekend, Simple

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

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• The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are happy and the cooks are happy, then we have a great experience.

  Mario Batali

  Artist, Cooking, Comfort

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• I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Home, Nannies

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• Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.

  Emily Oster

  Mom, Mother, Dad

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• You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about.

  Kristen Bell

  Reading, Recipes, Figures

  "Kristen Bell: Why Dax Shepard and I are in couples therapy". www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2015.

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• Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

  Criss Jami

  Brain, May, Back Burner

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.23, Criss Jami

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• I bask in the affection I get on the streets. I recently went into the kitchen of a restaurant to meet the cooks. They were people I didn't know, but what a joy it was meet them! Such experiences wouldn't happen if I were doing only one kind of cinema.

  Boman Irani

  People, Joy, Kitchen

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• The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.

  John Dryden

  Sex, Curiosity, Maids

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1856). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Containing the Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.404

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• I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Long, Heat, Program

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• The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Inspiration, Mad, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.

  Jim Capaldi

  Philosophy, Writing, Way

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

  David Chang

  Competition, Events, Week

  "In Conversation: André Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

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• I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

  Eva Longoria

  Passion, Together, Recipes

  "Eva Longoria's One Cooking Tip for Men (Also: Pizza)". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.

  Anna Kendrick

  Chocolate, Sauce, Flour

  "What To Expect When You're Expecting - Anna Kendrick and Chace Crawford interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.

  Auren Hoffman

  Men, Teach A Man To Fish, Sushi

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• I live to eat - when someone else cooks for me.

  Saffron Aldridge

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• The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hours, Pleasure, Poor

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.638, Simon and Schuster

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