Cooks Quotes - Page 35

• The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.

  John Dryden

  Sex, Curiosity, Maids

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1856). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Containing the Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.404

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• I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Long, Heat, Program

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• The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Inspiration, Mad, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.

  Jim Capaldi

  Philosophy, Writing, Way

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

  David Chang

  Competition, Events, Week

  "In Conversation: André Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

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• I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

  Eva Longoria

  Passion, Together, Recipes

  "Eva Longoria's One Cooking Tip for Men (Also: Pizza)". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.

  Anna Kendrick

  Chocolate, Sauce, Flour

  "What To Expect When You're Expecting - Anna Kendrick and Chace Crawford interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.

  Auren Hoffman

  Men, Teach A Man To Fish, Sushi

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• I live to eat - when someone else cooks for me.

  Saffron Aldridge

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• The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hours, Pleasure, Poor

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.638, Simon and Schuster

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• Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things.

  Dolly Parton

  Home, Simple, Doors

  "Song: "Old Black Kettle" ("My Tennessee Mountain Home")". March 26, 1973.

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• London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always eating out, and when they're at home they don't cook the way they did ten years ago. They're all sitting around in cafés, like the Continentals, drinking coffee and chattering and watching the world go by.

  Doris Lessing

  Drinking, Coffee, Home

  Interview with Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. November 19, 2013.

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• She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

  George Meredith

  Sweet, Rawness, Comedy

  George Meredith (1956). “The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

  Evan Esar

  Things In Life, Cooking, Looks

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• I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Wife, Teeth, Dinner

  "It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs". Book by Rodney Dangerfield, p. 18, 2004.

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• I am pretty health-conscious, so when my girlfriend and/or I make dinner--no, I don't have a cook!--we choose the healthier options: lean meats, steamed veggies, fish, etc. Of course, there are always those cravings for the "bad foods" that I do give in to once in a while!

  Tiger Woods

  Girlfriend, Giving, Dinner

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, People, Style

  "British Sensation Lawson Says Cooking Should Be About Fun, Family". Oakland Tribune, June 04, 2003.

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• I think it's very attractive when people cook. So I don't wear sweatpants. When you dress sexy to cook, too, it's like, damn, I got a girl who can cook and look like that? And I always have really cute aprons.

  Blake Lively

  Cute, Girl, Sexy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Like every other rich asshole, I have a cook and he's in my trailer making food all the time.

  Adam Sandler

  Rich, Trailers

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Food trucks give creative entrepreneurs the ability to cook with freedom and make what they love, meaning that they can create highly specialized meals without having the high overhead costs of running a restaurant.

  Homaro Cantu

  Running, Giving, Entrepreneur

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• Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.

  Anthony Shadid

  Believe, Artist, Glasses

  Anthony Shadid (2012). “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He makes amazing omelets, fish, and grilled vegetables like Brussels sprouts and cauliflower.

  Dylan Lauren

  Husband, Vegetables, House

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• I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Chance, Welcome, Pot

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• It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.

  Bill Watterson

  Vegetables, Cooking, Hard

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• Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, Men, Sovereign

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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