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“First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.”

“Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.”

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Author:Tyler Florence

“Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.”

Sides Cooking Domesticity Showy

Author:Adam Gopnik

“There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.”

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Author:Adam Gopnik

“I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.”

Ifs I Can Honest Cooking

Author:Len Goodman

“My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.”

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Author:Duff Goldman

“The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.”

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Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land

“Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?”

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Author:Sade Adu

“And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.”

Cooking Cooks Impressed

Author:Luke Evans

“It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.”

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Author:Justin Townes Earle

“Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.”

White Food Holy Pure Cooking Culinary Salt

Book:Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.”

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Author:Sinclair Lewis

“Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.”

Virtue Food Cooking Culinary Quantity Peppers

Author:Plato

“Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!”

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Author:Guy Fieri

“I studied cooking in Spain after college.”

College Cooking Spain

Author:Jose Garces

“You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.”

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Author:Nadia Giosia

“I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.”

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Author:Rebecca Hall

“I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.”

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Author:Patsy Kensit

“I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.”

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Author:Alan Jackson

“If I'm cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an authentic way. To speak to people like I want to be spoken to, to be a voice for people who don't have one and to give them things they need and love.”

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Author:Khloe Kardashian