Kitchen Quotes - Page 40

• The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens every day in any country... I was really astounded that some people were shocked.

  Doris Lessing

  Notebook, Country, People

  "Doris Lessing: being a woman writer". Undated profile at the BBC World Service, www.bbc.co.uk.

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• Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Uncles, Writing, Achievement

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.

  Anthony Trollope

  Character, Differences, House

  Anthony Trollope (1983). “Trollope-to-reader: A Topical Guide to Digressions in the Novels of Anthony Trollope”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• "In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, France, Dignity

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• And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling from hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Air, Glowing

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• When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.

  Rebecca Latimer Felton

  Country, War, Men

  Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”

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• No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

  Christopher Reeve

  Kind, Canvas, Bigger

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Mom, Food, Grandmother

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• In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Struggle, Mean

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• The light would show (if it could harden)
  Eternities of kitchen garden

  Edith Sitwell

  Garden, Light, Eternity

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.67, A&C Black

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• You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dining, Rooms, Eating

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.

  Rachael Ray

  Holiday, Cooking, Trying

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• I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as much as possible, and she worked in restaurants for over fifty years. And my grandfather had ten children, and he grew and prepared most of the food. My grandmother, on my mother's side, was the family seamstress and the baker. So my mom, the eldest child, was always in the kitchen with my grandpa and I was always in the production and restaurant kitchens and our own kitchen with my mom. And it's just something that has always spoken to me.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Interview with Celebrity Chef Rachael Ray". TheCelebrityCafe Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. March 27, 2012.

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• A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Cooking, Ignorant

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kindness, Charity, Philanthropy

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.

  Esther Hicks

  Law, Important, Events

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• There's only one cook in the kitchen, only one chef. I let the soloists do their thing - you've gotta let a man do a solo the way he wants - but as far as picking the tunes and working on the arrangements, I take full responsibility for it.

  Gregg Allman

  Responsibility, Men, Tunes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to
  leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.

  Willa Cather

  Dark, People, House

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.124, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Each year-in the fields, commercial kitchens, markets, stores, and restaurants-millions of pounds of food go to waste... We need to find ways to get this food into the mouths of the hungry and not into the mouth of the dumpster.

  Dan Glickman

  Years, Environmental, Mouths

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• I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

  Homaro Cantu

  School, Bored

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• I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.

  Tristram Stuart

  Believe, Opportunity, Imagination

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• My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'

  Julia Roberts

  Home, Thinking, Order

  "Julia Roberts interview: 'I don't work a lot now that I'm a desperately fulfilled housewife'". www.mirror.co.uk. August 13, 2010.

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• I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

  Fergus Henderson

  Jobs, Holiday, Thinking

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• I'm not trying to force something, but I do enjoy working behind the scenes and I do enjoy bringing all of the ingredients to the kitchen so that we can make the movie.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Trying, Behind The Scenes, Ingredients

  "Interview With ‘Courageous’ Producer Stephen Kendrick". Interview with Cheryl Wicker, sonomachristianhome.com. January 31, 2012.

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