Pastries Quotes

• You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Snow, Cooking

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• I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise.

  Sean Sasser

  People, And Love, Twists

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• A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Nice, Long, Mind

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• I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...

  Jimmy Buffett

  Lobster, Living On

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• All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

  Sara Paretsky

  Food, Peanut Butter, Comfort

  Sara Paretsky (2005). “Killing Orders”, Signet

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• Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Eggs, Cooking, Secret

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• The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Art, Food, Numbers

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• Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.

  Muriel Barbery

  Needs, World, Coats

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• What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Flower, Food, Thinking

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• You can’t hurry love, and you can’t rush puff pastry, either. You can knead too much, and you can be too needy. Always, warmth is what brings pastry to rise. Chemistry creates something amazing; coupled with care and heat, it works some kind of magic to create this satisfying, welcoming, and nourishing thing that is the base of life.

  Kathleen Flinn

  Magic, Puff, Care

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• Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

  Tom Colicchio

  Should Have, Understanding, Chef

  "Top Chef's Tom Colicchio: Toby 'Didn't Have the Most Authoritative Voice'". Interview with Gina DiNunno, www.tvguide.com. June 22, 2010.

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• I'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Baby, Humor

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Tree, Doe

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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• I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

  Gene Simmons

  Long, Meals, Jelly

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Summer, Winter, Bread

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• There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

  Julia Child

  Art, Sculpture, Four

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.145, Anchor

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• I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

  Michael Symon

  Understanding, Bones

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• I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

  Ewan McGregor

  Princess, Play, Interesting

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

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• A basket of freshly baked pastries like scones make breakfast easy for your host the next day.

  Clinton Kelly

  Next Day, Breakfast, Host

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• The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.

  Carla Hall

  Challenges, Together, Baking

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• Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

  Sloane Crosley

  Maintenance, Tarts, Unforgiving

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• You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

  Ina Garten

  Scratches, Puff, Want

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Mistake, Age

  Letter to E. M. Savrova-Yust, February 28, 1895.

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• Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

  Daniel Handler

  Punishment, Criminals, Crime

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• Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.

  Bobby Flay

  Oil, Pay, Sauce

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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