COOKING QUOTES III

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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Sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

TERRY PRATCHETT

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If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

TOM JAINE

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'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat.
What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook?
How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser,
And serve it thus to me that love it not?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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If god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

LINDA HENLEY

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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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I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.

SONIA RUMZI

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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

EMILY POST

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Bambi--see the movie! Eat the cast!

HENRY KELLY

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

JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE

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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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Good cooking tempts the appetite.

RABBI ADA

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

W.C. FIELDS

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You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can’t you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.

FERRAN ADRIA

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Unless you live alone in a cave or hermitage, cooking and eating are social activities: even hermit monks have one communal meal a month. The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

LAURIE COLWIN

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The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought about the rhythms of cooking, one of which involves destroying the order of the things we bring from nature into our kitchens, only to then create from them a new order.

MICHAEL POLLAN

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A good cook has great power to assuage grief by his art.

MOUCHY

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A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

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I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

SHAUNA NIEQUIST

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