Cooking Quotes - Page 10

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  Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

  Jim Rohn

  Wisdom, Greatness, Light

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2017

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• Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.

  Anna Thomas

  Different, Stories, Way

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• A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Kitchen, Ignorant

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!

  Heloise

  Eye, Cutting, Tea

  Heloise (1963). “Heloise's Kitchen Hints”

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• To cook your hare you must first catch it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Firsts, Hares, Cooks

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.228, 谷月社

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• Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Rain, Food, Clouds

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.

  Richard Taverner

  Food, Thinking, Lust

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• If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Food, Noble, Records

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• And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Food, Secret, Details

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• The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

  Judith Martin

  Food, Teaching, Accomplishment

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

  Ina Garten

  People, Impress, Feels

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• If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

  George Eliot

  Food, Thinking, Pudding

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.292

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• The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.

  Ryan Adams

  Interesting, Eating, Ends

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• He receives comfort like cold porridge.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Comfort, Cold

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. 10

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• Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Eggs, Giving

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• I have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really hard to find people who are not fame-whores. We're lucky these people actually wanted to spend their time doing this. All of them would have much rather been cooking without the cameras, being with their families. That's why they're great characters.

  Mo Rocca

  Character, People, Grandparent

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• He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Food, Glasses, Air

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.27, Vintage

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• He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Ceilings, Rope

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.41

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• Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Food, Eight, Typewriters

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• Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Giving, Spoons

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• Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Food, Pigs, Sound

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2016). “Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Two, Giving

  Craig Claiborne (1994). “Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia”, Outlet

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• Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.

  Catharine Beecher

  Food, America, Sky

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.190, Applewood Books

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• HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Definitions, Culinary

  Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.70, Prabhat Prakashan

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• He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Food, Sandwiches, Garlic

  Ford Madox Ford (1971). “The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions”

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