COOKING QUOTES IV

quotations about cooking

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

MOUCHY

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I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

ALTON BROWN

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Too many cooks spoil the broth.

CHINESE PROVERB

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

BILL WATTERSON

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Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

P.J. O'ROURKE

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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

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Even a miser does not refuse meat to the cook.

EFIK

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

W.C. FIELDS

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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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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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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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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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Bambi--see the movie! Eat the cast!

HENRY KELLY

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

JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE

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The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

EVAN ESAR

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There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

FERRAN ADRIÀ

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