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“The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.”

Mother Advice Cooking Kitchen Dishes Wisest

Author:Lela Rose

“My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.”

Children Mother House Built Kitchen Focal Point

Author:Gail Simmons

“When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.”

Writing Matter Kids Mother Waiting Records Five Special Hundred Sentences Punishment Kitchen Minimum Notebook Drawers Spirals Transgression

Book:Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

Source: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

“My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.”

Art Wanted Mother Careers Hair Paper Tables Profession Kitchen Pencils Kitchen Table Paper And Pencil

Author:Alton Tobey

“When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.”

Children Made Mother Snow Ice Kitchen Divinity Eggs Sugar Cream Associates Ice Cream Larks Fudge Snowstorms Pecans

Book:Occasions: Selected Writings

Source: Occasions: Selected Writings

“You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.”

Knows Years Said I Can Home Age Remember Mother Left Parent Kitchen Restaurants Chef Apprenticeship Home Home

Author:Jacques Pepin

“I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.”

Mother Next Born Poor Doors Birth Tables Kitchen Kitchen Table

Author:Mel Brooks

“I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.”

Way Mother Sound My Own Path Grew Findings Grew Up Daughter Filled Smoke My Way Kitchen Vegetables Recipes Impatience Vacuums Recollection Mother Daughter Tin Ovens Frying

Author:Patricia J. Williams

“My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.”

People Mother Cooking Dinner Thirty Kitchen Grandmother Farms Typical My Grandmother Recipes

Book:If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

Source: If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

“When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and Ive done so ever since.”

Done Lying Mother Night Father Died Crisis Rounds Kitchen Funeral My Sister Organised Undertaker Mother Died

Author:Stuart Rose

“And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling from hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.”