Good Cook Quotes

• A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Happiness, Food, Home Cooking

  1954 A Shocking Life, ch.21.

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• You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

  Julia Child

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

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• Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Perfect, Cooking, Brain

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.49

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• Eating is the secret to good cooking.

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Secret, Eating

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• A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

  Thomas Keller

  Food, Home Cooking, Soul

  Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

  Urbain Dubois

  Food, Ambition, Cooking

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• To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

  Julia Child

  Hard Work, Creating, Cooking

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• The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

  James Beard

  Cooking, Secret, Firsts

  James Beard, Amy Pastan, Peter Pastan (1986). “James Beard's theory & practice of good cooking in large print”, G K Hall & Co

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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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• Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Cooking, Painting

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• Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

  Andre Simon

  Art, Cooking, Unselfish

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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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• I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

  James Whistler

  Sorry, Food, Cooking

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• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Food, Health

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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• I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile.

  Julia Child

  Believe, Food, Thinking

  "My Life In France". Book by Julia Child, p. 71, 2006.

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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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• The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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• They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.

  Stefanie Powers

  Kissing, Guy, Cooking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.

  Heidi Klum

  Recipes, Cabbage, Meatballs

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

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• He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Home, Cooking

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• I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

  Robert Mondavi

  Mother, Food, Wine

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• The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.

  Cat Cora

  Home, Kids, Years

  "Chef Cat Cora says "Bon Appetit" at Sundance". Interview with Jane Clark, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

  Michael Symon

  Thinking, Important, Recipes

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• When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Cooking, Intelligence

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