Cooks Quotes - Page 6

• People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

  Laurie Colwin

  Two, Long, People

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• This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

  Julia Child

  Fun, Mistake, Food

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.261, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

  Thomas Keller

  Food, Home Cooking, Soul

  Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• Young Alexander conquered India.
  He alone?
  Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army?
  Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears?
  Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who
  Triumphed with him?

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Army, Years

  Bertolt Brecht, “A Worker Reads History”

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• Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

  Michael Pollan

  Long, Junk, Want

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.7, Penguin

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• My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Christmas, Mom, Fun

  "Despicable me". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

  Julian Castro

  Mother, Brother, Children

  Julian Castro's keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Sleep, Writing

  "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.

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• Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Sex, Nice, Mean

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• I own the restaurant. There are a lot of cooks, waiters and waitresses in this restaurant. They worry about their problems. I worry about all the problems.

  Mack Brown

  Worry, Problem, Waitress

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• Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.

  Julia Child

  Art, Differences, Cooking

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.30, Knopf

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• I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

  Jacques Pepin

  Hands, Class, Important

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• We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a ­fantastic cook. She does a brilliant ­lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart.

  Gary Lineker

  Romantic, Kids, Home

  "Gary Lineker reveals he's staying with the BBC.. and reveals men fall over themselves to speak to Danielle in the street". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 9, 2011.

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• The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Dog, Exercise, Animal

  "The Confessions of a Lost Dog" by Frances Power Cobbe, London: Griffith & Farran, (pp. 15-16), 1867.

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• As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

  Beth Ditto

  Thanksgiving, Football, Running

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• ...cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Mother, Dog, Yellow

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• We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Art, Book, Passion

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Sushi, Sauce

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• My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good for the shareholders and for the company.

  Phil Knight

  Jobs, Ideas, Decision

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• A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Winning, Presidential

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• In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a woman who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Firsts, Lawyer, Prison

  "Iran Awakening - An Interview With Shirin Ebadi". Interview with Brian Shott, news.newamericamedia.org. May 20, 2006.

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• Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Lying, Heart, Soup

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.102, 1st World Publishing

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• Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

  Julia Child

  Bakers, Done, Television

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• Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.

  Jacques Pepin

  Wine, Two, Wife

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• When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

  Jacques Pepin

  Book, Past, Years

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