Cooks Quotes - Page 8

• The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.

  Ward McAllister

  People, Elements, Debt

  Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”

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• Adam Roberts is an original: smart, funny, talented, endlessly inquisitive, an A student and, happily for us, an A+ teacher. Everyone from beginner cooks to sure hands will learn something new on each page. And even if, like Adam's mom's, your stove stores shoes and handbags, you'll still be charmed by Secrets-it's a great read.

  Dorie Greenspan

  Mom, Teacher, Smart

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• I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.

  Nita Ambani

  Daughter, My Daughter, Permit

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• Bless all useful objects,
  the spoons made of bone,
  the mattress I cook my dreams upon,
  the typewriter that is my church
  with an altar of keys always waiting.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Keys, Typewriters

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

  Mason Cooley

  Book, Reading, Dieting

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• Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.

  Gina Barreca

  Preparation, Important, Example

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• Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Vegetables, Giving, Community

  Lillian B. Rubin (1981). “Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self”, Harpercollins

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• The readers and the hearers like my books,
  And yet some writers cannot them digest;
  But what care I? for when I make a feast,
  I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

  John Harington

  Book, Criticism, Care

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• Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
  And the mate of the Nancybrig,
  And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite,
  And the crew of the captain's gig!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Gigs, Captains, Sun

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Yarn Of The Nancy Bell”

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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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• Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

  Charlemagne

  Pride, Garden, Physicians

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• Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.

  John Thorne

  Food, Other Cultures, Joy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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