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“Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.”

Cooking Cooks Zombie Delicious Food French Cooking Good French

Author:Julia Child

“Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?”

Hair Cooking Casting Asparagus

Author:Curly Howard

“It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.”

Destiny Food Cooking Culinary Crushed Mint

Book:Food

Source: Food

“My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.”

Ifs Hard Mother Food Cooking Cooks Culinary Home Cooking

Author:Nora Ephron

“Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.”

Women Food Married Cooking Magazines Memorable Buying Culinary Gourmet Gourmet Food

Book:Crazy Salad Plus Nine

Source: Crazy Salad Plus Nine

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”

“The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.”

Shows Seems Food Cooking Culinary Vegetables Reluctant Capricious Turnips

Book:Food

Source: Food

“I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.”

Knows Believe Inspiration Cooking Don't Believe Crafts Just Do It

Author:Chuck Close

“Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.”

Alive Bird Blue Green Cooking Gardening

Author:Charles Bowden

“I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.”

Littles Use Speak Natural Seasons Cooking Technique Fats Heat Flavor Frying

Author:Cat Cora

“Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.”

Way Use Fine Taste Aspect Cooking Technique Meals Ingredients Satisfying Engaging Flavor Cleaning Presenting

Author:Steve Albini

“With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.”

Mind Three House Hours Numbers Fire Method Cooking Technique Burning Kitchen Gas Cigarette Chips Carpet Chimneys Number Three Cookers

Book:The Cold Cold Ground

Source: The Cold Cold Ground

“Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.”

Thinking Men Inspirational Home Wife Cooking Home Cooking

Author:Jimmy Durante

“One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.”

Men Sports Leadership Food Cooking Poison Culinary One Man Another Man Ivy Spinach Poison Ivy

Author:George Ade

“Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.”

May Taste Cooking Delight Theme Composer Variation

Author:Fernand Point

“Nourishment is not just “nutrition.” Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the table, the love and inspiration in the cooking, and the joy of the entire eating experience.”

Inspiration Joy Rooms Taste Conversation Eating Tables Cooking Nutrition Nourishment Nutrients Aroma Love And Inspiration Ambiance

Author:Marc David

“Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.”

People Thinking Knows Country Bigs Earth Wonder Boys Food Ought Cooking Glad Meat Culinary Plates Other Countries Bloody Beef Steak Hunk

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.”

Men Food Mines Cooking Every Man Bread Noses Culinary Thrust Bread And Butter Porridge Every Man For Himself

Book:The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha

Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha

“One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.”

Wells Cooking Supper

Author:Juana Inés de la Cruz

“People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.”

People Ifs Trying Years Firsts Has Beens Reason Food Eating Cooking Culinary Potatoes Juice Limes Cooking And Eating

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.”

Food Beats Cooking Prison Meat Kicks Dishes Asian Karate Pigeons

Book:Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price

Source: Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price

“Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.”

Hell Growing Up Growing Food Cooking Meals Bottles Packages Ramen

Book:Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price

Source: Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price

“Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.”

Water Natural Minutes Food Hot Cooking Sexy Eggs Chicks Minerals Swedish Hot Water Saunas

Book:Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price

Source: Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price

“On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."”

Nice Food Cooking Eggs Blunt Egg Rolls

Author:Coolio

“Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.”

People Ifs I Can Helping Food Cooking Ass Necks Lawns Appetizers

Author:Coolio

“I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.”

Home Funny Stuff Cooking Fancy Culinary Royal Family Home Cooking

Author:Prince Philip

“Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.”

Stuff Dresses Cooking Ugly Sexy Partners Kitchen Chef Coats

Author:Marc Jacobs

“I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.”

Doe Mother Waste Cooking Housework Dave

Author:Siobhan Fahey

“My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, "Cooking is my job, and studying is your job." I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.”

Thinking World Way Wanted Jobs Mother Views Study Let Me Cooking Chaos Cooks Kitchen Orderly Retrospect

Author:Ina Garten

“At the gym, men are just as self conscious and check themselves out in the mirror just as much as women do. In regards to cooking, men can do more than BBQ. All you need to do is ask—but be sure to do it after the game! Oh, and, men do like salads, especially if they are topped off with bacon!”

Ifs Men Needs Self Asks Games Can Do Conscious Mirrors Regard Cooking Checks Gym Self Conscious Salad Bbq

Author:Chuck Hughes

“It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.”

House My Own Cooking Moved Pits Houston

Author:Earl Campbell

“Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.”

Fashion Food Cooking Shoes Culinary Sensible Potatoes

Author:Linda Wells

“I spent several years cooking on a line.”

Years Lines Cooking

Author:Jose Garces

“Happy Birthday To Steph, You're a Hoe with Big Breasts, so take the Night off from Hooking... If ya Smell what The Rock's cooking!”

Ifs Bigs Night Rocks Cooking Smell Breasts Wrestling Wwe Hoe Big Breast

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids with their homework. Mind you, I'm terrible at maths. I can't even do my six-year-old's maths homework with her.”

Years Mind I Can Helping Kids Wife Terrible Six Cooking Math Ridiculous Mum Cleaning Homework Six Year Olds

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.”

Years Funny Given Forget Lessons Cooking Ridiculous Dumb Never Forget Jamie

Book:Notes from my Kitchen Table: Enhanced Ebook Edition

Source: Notes from my Kitchen Table: Enhanced Ebook Edition

“I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas.”

Believe Different I Believe Cities Cooking Guests Vegas Las Vegas Dine

Author:Michael Mina

“Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.”

People Done Five Minutes Stage Fronts Cooking Flavor Five Minutes Demonstration

Author:Rocco DiSpirito

“If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.”

People Ifs Book Trouble Cooking

Author:Don Nickles

“The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.”

Has Beens Said Whole Food Cooking Active Culinary Passive Verbs

Author:William Ralph Inge

“Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.”

Persons Religious Food Perspective Honor Holy Cooking Culinary Celebration Festivals Distinguished Drunkenness Gluttony

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.”

People Years Waiting Can Do Break Weakness Cooking Cleaning Cooking Love Cooking And Love

Author:Amy Sedaris

“In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.”

Cooking Heritage New Orleans Louisiana

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.”

“I hire tea by the tea bag.”

Money Food Cooking Tea Bags Culinary Tea Bag

Book:Money

Source: Money

“I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.”

“When I created Chipotle in 1993, I had a very simple idea: Offer a simple menu of great food prepared fresh each day, using many of the same cooking techniques as gourmet restaurants. Then serve the food quickly, in a cool atmosphere. It was food that I wanted, and thought others would like too. We've never strayed from that original idea. The critics raved and customers began lining up at my tiny burrito joint. Since then, we've opened a few more.”

“The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.”

Vision Forever Goes On Cooking Honey Milk Comes And Goes Odor Milk And Honey

Author:E. B. White

“The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook what I felt like cooking. And you could eat it or not.”

Kind Would Be Three Felt Four Imagine Tables Cooking Cooks Restaurants

Author:Steve Albini

“I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.”

Ifs Kind Cooking Cooks Bothered Good Cook

Author:Steve Albini

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