Cooks Quotes - Page 2

• I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.

  Robert Runcie

  Thinking, People, Saint

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• It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Food, Men

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

  Rick Larsen

  Children, Sleep, Leaving

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• Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

  Steve Albini

  Rocks, Cooking, Musician

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• I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

  Debi Mazar

  Queens, Husband, Italian

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

  Groucho Marx

  Hate, Book, Thinking

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.29, Da Capo Press

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• I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

  Tom Colicchio

  Running, Kitchen, Chef

  Interview with Joel Keller, tv.avclub.com. March 16, 2011.

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• At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Lying, Knives, Roots

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• I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.

  Curtis Stone

  Monday, Thinking, Vegetables

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• The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

  Pearl Bailey

  Cooking, Preparation, Ingredients

  Pearl Bailey (1973). “Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook”, Harcourt

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• A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Cooking, Good Woman, Artistic

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• I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

  Alton Brown

  Cooking, Stories, Way

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• If you think well, you cook well.

  Ferran Adria

  Thinking, Cooking, Wells

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• Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Men, Cooking

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• Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

  Marie Windsor

  Devil, Littles, Busy

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• This is every cook's opinion -
  no savory dish without an onion,
  but lest your kissing should be spoiled
  your onions must be fully boiled.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Kissing, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, “Market Women’s Cries”

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• There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

  Mario Batali

  Funny, Art, Thinking

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• I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Worry, Cooking

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• When I cook, my brain stops completely.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Brain

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• Too many cooks spoil the broth

  Jane Austen

  Food, Haste Makes Waste, Chinese

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.2567, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Literature, Easier

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, January 2, 1894.

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• I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.

  Jilly Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Generous

  "My favourite table" by Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

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• Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Hunters, Next

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• Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Music, Food, Literature

  Quoted in The NewYork Times, 16 Nov 1967.

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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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