Cooking Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Fun, Food, Kitchen

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• I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mom, Mother, Memories

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• I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

  Emeril Lagasse

  School, Pay, Scholarship

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• Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

  Linda McCartney

  People, Cafes, Six

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• Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

  Milton Glaser

  Design, Computer, Microwaves

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• Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

  Julia Child

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Sep 01, 2013

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• If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

  Tom Jaine

  Art, Mean, Form

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• He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Home, Missionary

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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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• I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

  Maya Angelou

  Expression, Likes, Form

  "Maya Angelou: 'I make no apologies for writing a cookbook'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2011.

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• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Fitness, Food

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

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• Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Art, Food, Home Cooking

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• Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love You, Making Love, Wells

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• Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

  Emily Dickinson

  Idols, Fickle, Literature

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Perfect, Brain, Peculiar

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.49

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• I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

  Mario Batali

  Book, Italian, Next

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• I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Mother, Doe, Waste

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• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Love, Food, Health

  1949 An Alphabet for Gourmets,'A Is for Dining Alone'.

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• Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

  Judith Viorst

  Inspirational, Strength, Food

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• There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thanksgiving, Witty, Humorous

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• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  Ted Allen

  Expression, People, Generosity

  "Things a Man Should Know About Entertaining" by Ted Allen, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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