Italian Cooking Quotes

• Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

  Patricia Briggs

  Italian, Engineering, Cooking

  Patricia Briggs (2006). “Moon Called”, p.159, Penguin

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• Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

  Federico Fellini

  Funny, Food, Home Cooking

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• I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.

  Leah LaBelle

  Mom, Italian, Cooking

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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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• The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Grandma, Italian

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• A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Food, Wine

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, People, Cooking

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• I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

  Mario Batali

  Book, Italian, Cooking

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• I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Italian, Japan, Talking

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• 80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.

  Marcella Hazan

  Italian, Cooking, Done

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• I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

  Steve Albini

  Mom, Growing Up, Italian

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