Culinary Quotes - Page 20

• A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Children, Hate, Women

  How to Survive Children

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• A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

  Alton Brown

  Home, Flying, Too Much

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• I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

  Claudette Colbert

  Food, Thinking, Order

  "Fictional character: Betty MacDonald". "The Egg and I", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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• A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Years, Practice

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• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Cutting, Vegetables

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life/Social Studies”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Food, Writing, Cooking

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• Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

  Karl Marx

  Food, Drinking, Wine

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• If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

  Jean Kerr

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Loss

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Food, Eggs, Imagination

  IRMA S ROMBAUER (1964). “VOLUME 2 APPETIZERS DESSERTS AND BAKED GOODS JOY OF COOKING”

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• Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

  Philip Sidney

  Sweet, Food, Knowledge

  Sir Philip Sidney (1831). “The Defence of Poesy”, p.16

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• My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

  W. C. Fields

  Baby, Food, Health

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• I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

  Graham Kerr

  Food, Dessert First, Perfect

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• My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where
  the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry
  meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

  Pearl Bailey

  Food, Past, Bridges

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• When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they think they're at a certain level that they haven't reached yet in the kitchen. Shows like 'Top Chef', 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Thinking, Two, Kitchen

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• I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

  Totie Fields

  Drinking, Failure, Food

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• There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Food, Miracle, Cooking

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• Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

  Alton Brown

  Food, Cooking, Recipes

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• Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

  Julia Child

  Food, Cooking

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• We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

  Cornel West

  Two, One Day, Delight

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• One of the many advantages of having a boyfriend who is half French is that his culinary repertoire extends beyond mac and cheese. Plus, there’s the kissing.

  Meg Cabot

  Kissing, Half, Cheese

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• We wanted to make a show that not only highlights the adventure of hunting, but also the fantastic culinary opportunities that a successful hunt can bring. It's great to have those efforts validated with a Beard nomination, and it speaks to the dedication of everyone on the MeatEater team. This honor makes us even more motivated to keep hammering out a solid, authentic hunting show that speaks to a variety of audiences.

  Steven Rinella

  Team, Adventure, Successful

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• First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.” “Does the chef always stand this close?” I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hands, Knives, Secret

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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  If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

  William E. Gladstone

  Cheer, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

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• Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Class, Rose

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• Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

  Truman Capote

  Cooking, Way, Worthwhile

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.61, Modern Library

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