Funny Kitchen Quotes

• Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Witty, Sex

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

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Cooking, Kitchen

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• I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

  Julia Child

  Inspiration, Food, Home Cooking

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  The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

  Julia Child

  Attitude, Block, Real

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.

  Susan Branch

  Children, Onions, Dip

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• Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Spiritual, Men

  1967 Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.

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• ...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Born, Cooks

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.261, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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

  Paul Theroux

  Creative, Cooking, Kitchen

  Paul Theroux (2014). “Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Passion, Eye, Cooking

  "Interview with Gordon Ramsay About Masterchef". Interview with Brett Moore, www.thespruce.com. November 17, 2016.

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• Life itself is the proper binge.

  Julia Child

  Life, Food, Weight Loss

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• Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

  Charles Buck

  Kitchen, Tables, Shrines

  Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.164

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