Cooks Quotes - Page 8

• Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.

  Jacques Pepin

  Wine, Two, Wife

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• I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

  Jacques Pepin

  Hands, Class, Important

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• When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

  Jacques Pepin

  Book, Past, Years

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• Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

  Henry Beard

  Food, Cooking, Chef

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• When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

  Jacques Pepin

  Food, Moving, Thinking

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• Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

  Marcella Hazan

  Art, Home, Accomplishment

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• Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Home, Men

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• Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have passed a judgment, the gist of which is: "This is deplorable! If these people had decent homes and a more private or bosky outdoor place, they wouldn't be on the street!" That judgment represents a profound misunderstanding of cities. It makes no more sense than to drop in at a testimonial banquet in a hotel and conclude that if these people had wives who could cook, they would give their parties at home.

  Jane Jacobs

  Party, Drinking, Home

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It's a how-to. And then they bleeped out the word 'f__k'. And I'm like, really? They killed a guy, and disintegrated his body in acid, but you're not allowed to say 'f__k'? It's like when they bleeped 'molly' at the VMAs. Look what I'm doing up here right now, and you're going to bleep out 'molly'?

  Miley Cyrus

  Leadership, Wisdom, Reality

  "Miley Cyrus: Confessions of Pop's Wildest Child" By Josh Eells, www.rollingstone.com. September 24, 2013.

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• On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

  Frederick Forsyth

  Men, Intelligence Services, Secret

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• I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

  China Machado

  Roots, Soul, Macau

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• He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

  John Prescott

  Government, Robins, British Politics

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• When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional.

  Paula Wolfert

  Food, Simple, Looks

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• In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Mom, Food, Grandmother

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• Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

  Alfred the Great

  Flames, Heat

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• The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.

  Ward McAllister

  People, Elements, Debt

  Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”

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• Adam Roberts is an original: smart, funny, talented, endlessly inquisitive, an A student and, happily for us, an A+ teacher. Everyone from beginner cooks to sure hands will learn something new on each page. And even if, like Adam's mom's, your stove stores shoes and handbags, you'll still be charmed by Secrets-it's a great read.

  Dorie Greenspan

  Mom, Teacher, Smart

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• The corporate scandals are getting bigger and bigger. In a speech on Wall Street, President Bush spoke out on corporate responsibility, and he warned executives not to cook the books. Afterwards, Martha Stewart said the correct term was to saute the books.

  Conan O'Brien

  Wall, Book, Responsibility

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• I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.

  Nita Ambani

  Daughter, My Daughter, Permit

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• Bless all useful objects,
  the spoons made of bone,
  the mattress I cook my dreams upon,
  the typewriter that is my church
  with an altar of keys always waiting.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Keys, Typewriters

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

  Mason Cooley

  Book, Reading, Dieting

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• Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.

  Gina Barreca

  Preparation, Important, Example

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• Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Jobs, Couple, Women

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• Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Vegetables, Giving, Community

  Lillian B. Rubin (1981). “Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self”, Harpercollins

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• The readers and the hearers like my books,
  And yet some writers cannot them digest;
  But what care I? for when I make a feast,
  I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

  John Harington

  Book, Criticism, Care

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