Cooks Quotes - Page 3

• As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

  Mario Batali

  Knives, Eating, Forks

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

  Paul Prudhomme

  World, Way, Hometown

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• Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

  W. H. Auden

  Food, Cooking, Murder

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• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  Ted Allen

  Cooking, Asian, Noodles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The French cook; we open tins.

  John Galsworthy

  Tin

  John Galsworthy (2015). “Another Sheaf”, p.98, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

  Paul Nurse

  Mother, Father, Years

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

  Monique Coleman

  Kitchen, Black, Peas

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• I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

  Hector Elizondo

  Littles, Spoiled, Concerned

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

  Dom DeLuise

  Years, Puberty, Decided

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• Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

  Jilly Cooper

  Used, Dazzling, Parkinson

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• Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

  Woody Allen

  Frozen, Dinner, Tvs

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• Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

  Alan Watts

  Educational, Clothes, Giving

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• Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Inspirational, Work, Creativity

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• Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

  Charlie Trotter

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

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• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  Edmund Leach

  Men, Beast, Reason

  Edmund Leach (1989). “Claude Levi-Strauss”, p.102, University of Chicago Press

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• I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Littles, Restaurants, Little Money

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• In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Stories, Process

  "Routine inquiries: what goes into a writing 'process'?" by Jean Hannah Edelstein, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Food, Medicine

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

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• Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean Exploration, Southern, Hemisphere

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• Any cook should be able to run the country.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Running, Country, Able

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• Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Running, Book, Home

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