Cooks Quotes - Page 36

• It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself.

  Johnny Carson

  Kings, Singing, Shadow

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• Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Growing, Way

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.25, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

  Fergus Henderson

  Mean, People, Fusion

  "Table talk". Interview with Rachel Dixon, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2008.

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• There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.

  Rex Stout

  Book, Writing, Two

  "Royal Decree: Conversations with Rex Stout". Book by John McAleer, p.3, 1983.

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• I'd love to say I'm an accomplished cook, but I don't have any signature dishes. I'm good at breakfast -- I make great eggs. My father gave me a little recipe. It's all in the seasoning. But it's a Greek secret. I won't give it away!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Father, Eggs, Giving

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• I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it ... I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.

  Mario Batali

  Mean, Expression, Two

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• The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.

  Mario Batali

  Errors, Space, Cooking

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• How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.

  Eric Hoffer

  Artist, Vegetables, Meat

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.

  Plutarch

  Son, Smell, Aprons

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.203

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• Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

  Aristophanes

  Winning, People, Together

  Aristophanes (2016). “The Knights”, p.16, Aristophanes

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• Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mother, Women, Media

  "Jamie Lee Curtis Comes Clean". Good Housekeeping Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 3, 2010.

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• Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Winning, Boss, Kitchen

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the things that helped me a lot as I was starting out in my career was that I got myself to France and Europe and California, and spent time immersing myself in those culinary traditions. I'd encourage future chefs to dive into whatever culture most excites them, and that they want to cook.

  Rick Tramonto

  Europe, Careers, California

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The planet will continue to cook.

  Paul Krugman

  Global Warming, Planets

  Awake! magazine, November 2011.

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• I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

  Ali Larter

  Reading, Weekend, Relaxation

  "Obsessed with Cooking, M.J., and Being a Manny" by Rebecca Guinness, www.vanityfair.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.

  Joanna Russ

  Mother, Jobs, Sorry

  "The Female Man". Book by Joanna Russ (Part 7, Chapter 1, p. 137), February 1975.

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• I always go to the lowest common denominator for that ingredient. So if I think squash, I try to think what it means to me -- and if it doesn't mean anything to me, I'm not gonna do well when I cook it. So [squash] means to me: fall, maple syrup, cinnamon, and things just come into your head so you can narrow the vortex and make it a bit smaller and you go with something because there's no time.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fall, Mean, Thinking

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• It's not the microwave that's the problem, it's what people put into them. I know people lead busy lives but they should try to sit their children down at the table once a week and cook them simple food.

  Raymond Blanc

  Children, Simple, People

  "Celebrity chef dishes microwave mothers" by Nicola Woolcock, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 02, 2001.

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• Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.

  Ferran Adria

  Discipline, Cooking, Kitchen

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• The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play... There's no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it's being done. It's emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the diners than the chefs.

  Ferran Adria

  Emotional, Talking, Play

  "World's top chefs talk cuisine, creativity in Chicago". Interview with Mark Caro, www.chicagotribune.com. March 20, 2014.

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• I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. The pencil has a symbolic meaning for me. The type of person who carries a pencil around is the type of person who's open to change. Someone who walks around with a pen isn't; he's the opposite.

  Ferran Adria

  Notebook, Jobs, Creativity

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• I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I do eat at home, but it's always something simple. Raw nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts--these are marvelous products. I am, however, the type that likes to go out to eat a lot. I never tire of it.

  Ferran Adria

  Home, Simple, Nuts

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• A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef." I just have dialogues with designers.

  Ferran Adria

  Artist, Years, People

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• Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.

  Michio Kushi

  Dog, Cat, Men

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 4), December 1994.

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• I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Thinking, Friendly

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