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

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

  Edna Lewis

  Food, Learning, African American

  Edna Lewis (2013). “In Pursuit of Flavor”, p.7, Knopf

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• A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

  Voltaire

  Cooking, Certain, Temper

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4099, e-artnow

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• I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

  Martha Stewart

  Very Good, Cooks

  "Martha Stewart bringing her American Made spotlight on creative entrepreneurs to Indianapolis". Interview with Elizabeth Houghton, www.indystar.com. November 3, 2013.

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• I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Passion, Might, Cooks

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• So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Food, Long, People

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• I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure. … But I am not really a good cook.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Good Food, Cooks, Epicurean

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• A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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• You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Kitchen, Ingredients, Chef

  "Magic Moments in Life" By Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.

  Ann Romney

  Mother, Thinking, Doctors

  "Ann Romney on her battle with multiple sclerosis and the race for the White House". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2015.

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• Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

  William Booth

  Food, Cooking, Would Be

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

  Bobby Flay

  Long, My Family, Family History

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Good Housekeeping Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

  Dolly Parton

  Fashion, Southern, Soul

  "Andy Warhol’s Interview Interview: Dolly Parton" by Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2014.

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• A lot of artists are good cooks as I'm too, but coming from a culture that was very concerned with food, I was very interested in that from the start. If you're interested in food, you're interested in lots of different aspects of culture. And it's like being interested in the music from a certain area, or writing, or whatever-food is part of that, too.

  Keith Sonnier

  Writing, Artist, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.

  Joan Bauer

  Thinking, Together, Way

  Joan Bauer (2011). “Close to Famous”, p.141, Penguin

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• If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, People, Cooking

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• A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

  Steve Albini

  Liars, Mean, Artist

  "Indie Rock Food Blogs: The Steve Albini Interview". Interview with Andrew Simmons, www.laweekly.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real, live blood gushing through my veins. You're holding me in your arms and I'm telling you that I love you. I'm ready to do anything you tell me to do. I may be a little bit mad, but I'm a good girl, and honest, and I work hard, I'm kind of cute, I have nice boobs, I'm a good cook, and my father left me a trust fund. I mean, I'm a real bargain, don't you think? If you don't take me, I'll end up going somewhere else.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cute, Girl, Father

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• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  Vince Cable

  Men, Thinking, Pie

  "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

  Alton Brown

  Chef, Very Good, Cooks

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• please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mean, Kind, Cooks

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

  Fernand Point

  Garden, People, Claims

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• Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

  Andre Simon

  Encouragement, Morning, Art

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• It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.

  Eliza Acton

  Ignorant, Meals, May

  Eliza Acton (1865). “Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...”, p.8

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