Cooking Quotes

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  My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

  Phyllis Diller

  Thanksgiving, Fun, Kids

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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

  Julia Child

  Inspiration, Food, Home Cooking

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• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Food, Health

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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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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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Kitchen, Needs

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• The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

  Sophia Loren

  Home, Ingredients, Home Cooking

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

  Julia Child

  Funny Kitchen, Born, Cooks

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

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• Kissing don't last: cookery do!

  George Meredith

  Food, Kissing, Lasts

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 28

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• Cooking done with care is an act of love.

  Craig Claiborne

  Cooking Classes, Cooking And Love, Done

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• Grub first, then ethics.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Food, Firsts, Ethics

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• Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny Inspirational, Kings, Food

  "Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income". Book by Brian Tracy, May 2, 2006.

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• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

  Ted Allen

  Food, Expression, People

  “Things a Man Should Know About Entertainzing” by Ted Allen, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

  Julia Child

  Drawing, People, Justice

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• It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Summer, Food, Garden

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

  Fannie Farmer

  Art, Mean, Self

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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

  Food, Past, Cooking Classes

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• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Thanksgiving, Food

  1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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• My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Funny, Food

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2010

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• The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

  Julia Child

  Funny, Food, Vegetables

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• The greatest dishes are very simple.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Simple, Culinary, Dishes

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