COOKING QUOTES IV

quotations about cooking

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

ALEXANDER POPE

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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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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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Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine,
And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

LORD BYRON

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

W.C. FIELDS

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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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I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.

JAROD KINTZ

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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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Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

PHYLLIS DILLER

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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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If you are not working in a fast food restaurant or bakehouse, the same dish will never turn out in exactly the same way twice.

PHILIP DUNDAS

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Just remember--it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.

JAMES BEARD

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Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back.

NALINI SINGH

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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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Many a newlywed cooks just the way her husband had better like it.

EVAN ESAR

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

BILL WATTERSON

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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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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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