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Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.”

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”

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Book:Kitchen Confidential

Source: Kitchen Confidential

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”

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Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“Grub first, then ethics.”

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Author:Bertolt Brecht

“fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.”

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Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.”

Source: The world according to Garp

“One more drink and I'll be under the host.”

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Author:Mae West

“How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?”

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Author:Rita Rudner

“Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" "I love to swim, too." said Adam. "So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together.”

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.”

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Book:The Moon by Night

Source: The Moon by Night

“Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.”

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Author:Julia Child

“Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.”

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Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

“A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner”

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Author:Ruth Reichl

“Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.”

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Author:Epictetus

“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.”

“In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?" Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is . . . I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last. Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back.”

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Author:Joanne Harris

“Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way”

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Book:Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

Source: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

“You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.”

“A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.”

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Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.”

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Author:Alton Brown

“Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.”

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Author:Alton Brown

“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”

“But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.”

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Author:Gloria Whelan

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