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“A good spice often deceives us into thinking that someone is a good cook.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Fearing to ask any more advice, she did her best alone, and discovered that something more than energy and good-will is necessary to make a cook.”

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Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.”

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Author:Stefanie Powers

“You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.”

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Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.”

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Book:Close to Famous

Source: Close to Famous

“He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.”

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Author:Craig Claiborne

“I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.”

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Author:James Whistler

“So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.”

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Author:Auguste Escoffier

“When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.”

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Author:Jacques Pepin

“Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.”

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Book:In Darkest England and the Way Out

Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out

“When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.”

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Book:James Beard's theory & practice of good cooking in large print

Source: James Beard's theory & practice of good cooking in large print

“A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.”

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Source: VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…

“I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.”

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Author:Ann Romney

“If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.”

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Author:Steve Albini

“Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.”

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Author:Frank Fairfield

“A good cook can make something amazing out of even the blandest ingredients. Still, you don't want to eat the exact same dish every day.”

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Author:Michael Bierut

“My favorite thing is when I go back and my mother cooks for me. Because it just throws me back the same flavor. And I try to modify things: I say, "Why don't you do this and that?" My mother is older, but she cooks a lot, and she doesn't want to change anything. She's a very good cook, and my grandmother was an amazing cook.”

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Author:Daniel Boulud

“A lot of artists are good cooks as I'm too, but coming from a culture that was very concerned with food, I was very interested in that from the start. If you're interested in food, you're interested in lots of different aspects of culture. And it's like being interested in the music from a certain area, or writing, or whatever-food is part of that, too.”

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Author:Keith Sonnier

“I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.”

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Author:Robert Mondavi

“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.”

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Author:Martha Stewart

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

“Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'”

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Author:Alton Brown

“A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.”

“please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.”

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Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”

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Author:Julia Child

“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.”

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Book:The French Laundry Cookbook

Source: The French Laundry Cookbook

“I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile.”

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Author:Julia Child

“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.”

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Author:Elsa Schiaparelli

“The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.”

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Author:Urbain Dubois

“Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.”

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Author:Andre Simon

“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.”

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Book:Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...

Source: Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...

“Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.”

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Author:Michael Symon

“I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure. … But I am not really a good cook.”

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Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.”

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Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.”

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Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.”

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Book:Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook

Source: Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook

“A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.”

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Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.”

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Author:Marcel Boulestin

“There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.”

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Author:Fernand Point

“Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.”

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Author:Andre Simon

“When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.”

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Author:Marie-Antoine Careme

“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.”

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Author:Julia Child

“Eating is the secret to good cooking.”

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Author:Julia Child

“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.”

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

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

“Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.”

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Author:Julia Child

“An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating”

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Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry