Cooking Quotes - Page 19

• The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the more I've come to the conclusion that the collapse of cooking is a big part of the problem.

  Michael Pollan

  Faces, Problem, Bigs

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

  Michael Pollan

  Sugar, Corporations, Too Much

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• I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be buying real food and not processed food, so that means the farmers will capture more of your food dollar.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.

  Michael Pollan

  Important, Use, Sugar

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• All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.

  Pete Seeger

  Sports, Art, Believe

  Source: nysmusic.com

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• I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

  Michael Pollan

  Simple, Thinking, Long

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• I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.

  Richard Simmons

  Father, Reading, Book

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.

  Serena Williams

  Mom, Class, Kitchen

  Source: www.bonappetit.com

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• If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

  Michael Strahan

  Way, Chef, Compliment

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• Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.

  Anya Seton

  Starting Over, Important, Timing

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• The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Real, Differences, United States

  Gertrude Atherton (2014). “Senator North”, p.103, The Floating Press

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• Yes, as a people we are spoiled. We look for dinners that take two minutes to cook in our microwave instead of five, and we audibly sigh if the directions on the box require us to stir at the halfway point. Aw, I gotta stir? See what else is in the freezer.

  Martha Bolton

  Two, People, Looks

  Martha Bolton (2003). “I Think, Therefore, I Have a Headache!: A Laugh-Out-Loud Look at Life”, Bethany House Pub

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• Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.

  Jo Coudert

  White, People, Chocolate

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• It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried out, you can hardly go wrong.

  Jo Coudert

  Burning, Ruins, Chickens

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• cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

  Jo Coudert

  People, Found, Cooks

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• I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

  Ruth Glick

  Recipes, Creation, Dishes

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• I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.

  Mark Salling

  Artist, Acting, Sketching

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• Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Summer, Mean, Winter

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• Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Use, Helping, Instruction

  "World Chefs: Geoffrey Zakarian Dishes on Must-have Ingredients in New Book". Interview with Richard Leong, www.reuters.com. November 18, 2014.

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• I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Kitchen, Ease, Hospitality

  "World Chefs: Geoffrey Zakarian Dishes on Must-have Ingredients in New Book". Interview with Richard Leong, uk.reuters.com. November 18, 2014.

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• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  Carla Hall

  Creativity, People, Mind

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• My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

  Brenda Song

  Growing Up, Dad, Ideas

  "Brenda Song - The NEW Interview". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. October 29, 2007.

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• Cooking can cure almost anything.

  Michelle Dockery

  Cures

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Girl, Home, Simple

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

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• I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

  Colm Meaney

  Home, Cents

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