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  The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

  Julia Child

  Attitude, Block, Real

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• Food is my drug of choice.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Choices, Drug

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

  Tyra Banks

  Want, Should, Feels

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• It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.

  Zhang Zhao

  Cooking, Culinary, Gods Will

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• If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Blessing, Cooking, Spices

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• I know my limit. I just keep passing out before I reach it.

  Red Skelton

  Cooking, Limits, Culinary

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• Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

  Julia Child

  Work, Women, Silly

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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• It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.

  Maimonides

  Wine, Light, Cooking

  Moses Maimonides (2014). “The Preservation of Youth: Essays on Health”, p.12, Open Road Media

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Memorable, Cooking Dinner

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

  Laurie Colwin

  Summer, July, Cooking

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• Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Cooking, Culture, Culinary

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• The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Color, Cooking, Tomatoes

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  Fannie Farmer

  Civilization, Cooking, Progress

  Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896). “Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

  Fernand Point

  Cooking, Kitchen, Orchestra

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• Good food is a celebration of life.

  Sophia Loren

  Celebration, Celebration Of Life, Good Food

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• If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff.

  Loic Remy

  Want, Stuff, Eating

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• The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Cooking, Culinary

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Eating Well, Giving, Joy

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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• Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.

  Julia Child

  Love Is, Emotional, Like Love

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• If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

  Eleanor Clark

  Weed, Love Life, Men

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• If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Glasses, Hands, Long

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• I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

  Janet Flanner

  Sea, Cooking, Sailor

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• Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Oklahoma, Cooking, Chinese

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• If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

  Louis Diat

  Cooking, Important, Essentials

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