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“Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting professions. They must be blessed - or cursed, whichever way you care to look at it - with what is called the artistic temperament, which means that if they are to act or cook at all well, it cannot be for duds or dummies.”

Ifs Way Wells Looks Mean Two Care Actors Strong Acting Food Fit Blessed Cooking Profession Artistic Cooks Culinary Temperament Cursed Being Blessed Dummy Artistic Temperament

Author:Andre Simon

“Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.”

Ifs Thinking Two Women Hours Work Minutes Food Cooking Silly Cooks Memorable Enjoyment Ballet Home Cooking

Book:Julia Child & more company

Source: Julia Child & more company

“Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.”

Food Fearless Cooks

Author:Brad Garrett

“Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.”

Earth Joy Culture Food Tradition Cooking Cooks Meals Collections Culinary Farmers Household Recipes Other Cultures Cookbook Spanking Oral Tradition

Author:John Thorne

“In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.”

Hands Able Food Source Cooking Fishes Delight Cooks Culinary Perpetual

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.”

Inspirational Food Cooking Painter Cooks Culinary Canvas Poultry

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.”

Food Cooks Chef Polite Apprentice Dishwashers

Author:Fernand Point

“Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.”

Food Taste Cooking Cooks Momma Nipples

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

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

“My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.”

Mother Too Much Food Keys Decided Cooking Cooks Concentration Culinary Milk Pie Juice Containers Limes

Author:William of Norwich

“Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.”

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Author:Waverley Root

“Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.”

Humans Reason Food Development Cooking Cooks Kitchen Culinary Human Development Delayed

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.”

Thinking Secret Food Eating Cooking Cooks Good Cook

Author:Julia Child

“It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.”

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Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

“Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.”

Ifs Advice Food Cooking Cooks Meat Culinary Chef Butchers

Book:Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

“I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.”

Mother House Food Sorrow Taste Cooking Cooks Culinary Turkeys Good Cook

Book:Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

“Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy”

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Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.”

Knows Artist Perfect Generations Mankind Food Cooking Philosopher Cooks Welfare Culinary Palms Unborn

Book:South Wind

Source: South Wind

“No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.”

Wells Heart Mean Hands Light Spirit Food Cooking Cooks Generous Culinary Generous Spirit

Book:The Portreeve

Source: The Portreeve

“This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.”

Should Opinion Food Kissing Cooking Cooks Dishes Spoiled Onions Savory

Author:Jonathan Swift

“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

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”

“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”

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