Kitchen Quotes

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  People who love to eat are always the best people.

  Julia Child

  Love, Food, Eating Good

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• Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

  Daniel Boulud

  Life, Fun, Food

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• A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

  Michael Ruhlman

  House, Best Place, Good Place

  Michael Ruhlman (2006). “The Reach of a Chef: Professional Cooks in the Age of Celebrity”, p.337, Penguin

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• The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

  Julia Child

  Imagination, Cooking, Ends

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• There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

  Julia Child

  Used, Made, Cooks

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• I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.

  Julia Child

  Lonely, Friendly, Feels

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• Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

  Curnonsky

  Art, Simple, Perfection

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• Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Happiness, House, Bigs

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• A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Light, Track

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• My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where
  the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry
  meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

  Pearl Bailey

  Food, Past, Bridges

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• When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

  Ava Gardner

  Hate, Sea, House

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• If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

  Harry S. Truman

  Wisdom, Adversity, Gossip

  Mr Citizen (1960) ch. 15 (see also Harry Vaughan 22.6)

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• The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

  Julia Child

  Funny, Food, Vegetables

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• No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Past, Cooking Classes

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• A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Science, Fats

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.276, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Ideas, Two

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• Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

  Walt Disney

  Fun, Modern, Refrigerators

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• I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er".

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

  Lela Rose

  Mother, Advice, Cooking

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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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• She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

  Harper Lee

  Girl, Thinking, Skills

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.96, Random House

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• The kitchen is where you put all the ingredients together. The kitchen is where you prepare the plan and put your recipe together. No matter what you do in life, you have to have a plan and put it together.

  Yo Gotti

  Together, Recipes, Matter

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• Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wish, Done, Knows

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