Home Cooking Quotes

• The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

  Sophia Loren

  Home, Cooking, Ingredients

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• Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist

  Keith Floyd

  Art, Shopping, And Love

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

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Happiness, Food, Feel Good

  1954 A Shocking Life, ch.21.

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• Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Art, Food, Taste

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• Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

  Craig Claiborne

  Art, Food, Love And Respect

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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

  Thomas Keller

  Food, Soul, Recipes

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

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• No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Past, Cooking Classes

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  The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

  Julia Child

  Attitude, Block, Real

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• All sorrows are less with bread.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Cooking Classes, Sorrow

  "The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, p. 530, 1902.

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• Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

  Federico Fellini

  Funny, Food, Magic

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• One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Eating Good

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

  James Beard

  Food, Gourmet, Beard

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• Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Entrepreneur, Culinary

  1595 Servingman to Capulet. Romeo andJuliet, act 4, sc.2, l.6.

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• Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

  Don Kardong

  Sports, Food, Inspiration

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• As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

  Joan Dye Gussow

  Fitness, Food, Health

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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

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• What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  A. A. Milne

  Beauty, Food, Likes

  "Not That It Matters".

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• I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Adventure, Oysters

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.6, A&C Black

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• Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

  Julia Child

  Work, Women, Food

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• We may live without friends; we may live without books
  But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Food, Book, Men

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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