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“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'”

“TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.”

Men Home Sides Taken Judging Murder Cooking Court Neighbor Shoulders Cooks Instruction Accused Slander Inference Technicalities Cleaver

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".”

“Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.”

Knows Ends Energy Creativity Creative Talent Activity Draws Mathematics Cooking Woods Drawing Disaster Experiments Imaginative Carving Drivel

Author:Julia Child

“Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.”

Able Young Passion Difficult Pay Becoming Higher Cooking Rate Pursue Reputation Cooks Restaurants Gaps Staff Wages

Author:Thomas Keller

“You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.”

Ifs Knows Cooking Cooks Restaurants Hayek Coattails

Author:Catherine Keener

“Possibly I want to bring my acting into the cooking, blending the two together. What I love is cooking for other people and seeing them enjoy what I have created for them. And same thing goes for acting. I have even tried to make some Chinese dishes before. It's very difficult. That's probably why eating at authentic Chinese restaurants is part of my journey here.”

People Want Two Together Enjoy Difficult Love Is Acting Seeing Journey Eating Cooking Chinese Restaurants Dishes My Journey Cooking For Others

Author:Jeremy Miller

“I think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it's the flame, maybe it's the big grills, maybe they've had some bad childhood experiences .. but I think that grilling is actually the easiest technique in cooking.”

People Thinking Bigs Childhood Cooking Technique Flames Intimidated Grilling

Author:Bobby Flay

“I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.”

Firsts Littles Home School Jobs Remember Students High School Cooking Profession Bars Our Family Heat Carter Handicaps

Author:Bobby Flay

“I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.”

Way Stories Cooking Cooks Wacky

Author:Alton Brown

“If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.”

Ifs Mean Said Used Cooking Used To Be Cooks Heels Head Over Heels

Author:Mimi Sheraton

“They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs.”

People Moving Losing Cooking Cooks Chicago Fringe County Suburbs

Author:Kenny Johnson

“A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.”

Men Time Food Taste Cooking Culinary Accustomed Palate

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.”

World Two War Matter Three Eating Standards Raises Cooking Lifetime Meals

Author:Will Rogers

“It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.”

People Challenges Food Cooking Ice Culinary Hockey Cream Ice Cream Ice Hockey Crabs

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.”

Art Nations Born Acting Creative Fashion Grew Skills Photography Grew Up Cooking British Decades British History Art And Music

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good, the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.”

I Can Problem Cooking Cooks Restaurants Expensive

Author:Mark Morris

“If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.”

Ifs Thinking Easy Food Cooking Dinner Culinary Pudding

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking - different flavors and different ingredients. Sometimes I think of it like orchestrating a piece of music with all the different instruments.”

Thinking Way Giving Different Sometimes Roles Pieces Instruments Cooking Different Ways Ingredients Flavor Different Day

Author:Joe Bradley

“Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.”

Persons Art Able Beauty Growing Sweet Flower Singing Art Is Cooking Add Meals Pet Parts Of Life

Author:Cynthia Rylant

“It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.”

“In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.”

Knows Kind Simple Growing Up Growing Cooking Cooks Weekend Pacific Seattle Barbecue Pacific Northwest

Author:Mario Batali

“When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.”

Children Whole Cooking Heritage Uncles Cousin Aunt Whole Family My Cousin Aunts And Uncles

Author:Mario Batali

“The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are happy and the cooks are happy, then we have a great experience.”

Ifs Artist Levels Achieve Comfort Cooking Customers Objectives Cooks Performers Viewers Great Experiences Diners

Author:Mario Batali

“Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.”

Feels Important Shows Home Economy Cooking Affection Dinner Feel Good Going Out Good Food

Author:Ina Garten

“They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.”

People Looks Garden Cooking Cooks Gardener

Author:Ina Garten

“I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.”

Use Taught Cooking Ingredients Flavor Fresh Ingredients

Author:Ina Garten

“I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.”

Mom Cooking My Favorite My Mom Restaurants Italian Bells Fast Food Food Love Tacos Italian Food Italian Cooking Taco Bell Bulgarians Fast Food Restaurants

Author:Leah LaBelle

“Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.”

Food Cooking Ice Culinary Breakfast Cake Cream Ice Cream Turkeys Jam Scotch Mustard Brandy

Author:Marian Burros

“Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.”

May Food Eating Cooking Drinking Culinary Fewer Alcoholics Beverages

Author:Marian Burros

“There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.”

Art Form Sex Cooking

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.”

Three Married Cooking Meals Routine Spares Cages Relentless Getting Married

Author:Sylvia Plath

“I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.”

Cooking Buying

Author:Anne Truitt

“If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.”

Ifs Men Giving Said Care Together Law Given Born He Man Return One Day Cooking Property Rounds Tiny Mortals Extras Pot Alas Neighbour Borrowed Offspring

Book:The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin

Source: The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin

“Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.”

Source: In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed

“My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking and showcase the process through a more simplistic, ethereal approach as an expression of life and living.”

Art Process Vision Expression Approach Life And Living Roots Cooking Ethereal Showcase

Author:Lorena Garcia

“Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with great expectation battling the cynicism of experience. You sit waiting, wondering about the upcoming moments of revelation. Somewhere in the back of your head is the dour warning that disappointment is inevitable but you don't really believe it or you wouldn't be there. The best eaters are always optimists.”

“The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.”

Looks Life Is Cooking Cooks Things In Life Saddest

Author:Evan Esar

“Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.”

Giving Writing Mean Persons Has Beens Wealth Creativity Creative Expression Bird Cooking Dancing Time Spent Creative Expression Bird Watching

Author:Anne Lamott

“I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest thing I do.”

I Can Clothes Cooking Chaos Driving

Author:Nigella Lawson

“At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.”

Individual Easy Roles Cooking Scripts Sensitive Washing

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.”

Kind Rooms Building Models Cooking Hotel Nests Gypsy Life Living Room Service Working All The Time

Author:Eva Herzigova

“In the art game we do our own cooking.”

Art Games Cooking Individuality

Author:Sara Genn

“What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.”

Energy Understanding Term Cooking

Author:Homaro Cantu

“It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.”

Ifs Hard Cooking Cooks Vegetables

Author:Bill Watterson

“Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.”

Men Past Dies Food Fame Tables Cooking Culinary Farmers Ironic Guests Plates Shifting Corn Crow Fickle Crumbs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.”

Knows Enjoy Pleasure Cooking Behave Ingredients

Book:The Complete Nose to Tail: A Kind of British Cooking

Source: The Complete Nose to Tail: A Kind of British Cooking

“I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it ... I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.”

Ifs Should Mean I Can Two Desire Teach Minutes Expression Cooking Dinner Cooks Kitchen How To Love

Author:Mario Batali

“The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.”

Young Space Common Empty Cooking Errors Noise Ideology Cooks Tunes Plates Crowded Empty Space

Author:Mario Batali

“After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.”

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