COOKING QUOTES IV

quotations about cooking

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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

PHYLLIS DILLER

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What the modern bride doesn't know would fill a book--a cookbook.

EVAN ESAR

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Bambi--see the movie! Eat the cast!

HENRY KELLY

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It is the art of cooking that makes the distinction of man and the lower animals; and a good cook who has a thorough knowledge of his art, should be entirely devoted to the gratification of taste, and the preservation of health.

M. UDE

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We may live without poetry, music, and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books--what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope--what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love--what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?

OWEN MEREDITH

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It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.

BILL WATTERSON

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All cooking is a matter of time. In general, the more time the better.

JOHN ERSKINE

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"Never cook with a wine you wouldn't drink," he said. "Though I guess that presupposes that there is a wine I wouldn't drink."

LEV GROSSMAN

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No one here will be surprised to hear me say that the Promethean fire which first raised humanity above the animal was the cooking fire.

BRIAN STABLEFORD

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People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

FERRAN ADRIA

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There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

MARY FRANCES KENNEDY FISHER

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Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE

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Cooking for others had often been my way of offering care. So why, when I was alone, did I find myself trying to subsist on cereal and water?

JENNI FERRARI-ADLER

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

W.C. FIELDS

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Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.

PAUL THEROUX

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Because cooks love the social aspect of food, cooking for one is intrinsically interesting. A good meal is like a present, and it can feel goofy, at best, to give yourself a present. On the other hand, there is something life affirming in taking the trouble to feed yourself well, or even decently. Cooking for yourself allows you to be strange or decadent or both. The chances of liking what you make are high, but if it winds up being disgusting, you can always throw it away and order a pizza; no one else will know. In the end, the experimentation, the impulsiveness, and the invention that such conditions allow for will probably make you a better cook.

JENNI FERRARI-ADLER

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

ALEXANDER POPE

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The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.

ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN

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One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends. People who like to cook like to talk about food. Plain old cooks (as opposed to the geniuses in fancy restaurants) tend to be friendly. After all, without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

LAURIE COLWIN

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When people think science and cooking, they have no idea that it's not correctly expressed. We're actually applying the scientific method. People think chemistry and physics are science, but the scientific method is something else.... It's the science that the world of cooking generates: science of butter; science of the croissant.

FERRAN ADRIA

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