646 Quotes About Cooking
- Author Ais
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Standing back and staring blankly at the glass, he realized he had no idea what it meant to preheat. Obviously he heated it prior to something, but to what?-Boyd
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- Author John Kennedy Toole
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I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked."Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically."She burns.
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- Author Thomas Keller
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Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.
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- Author Lev Grossman
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Never cook with a wine you wouldn’t drink,” he said. “Though I guess that presupposes that there is a wine I wouldn’t drink.
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- Author Rebecca Wells
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Zip it kiddo. Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you later in life.
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- Author Julie Powell
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Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction.
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- Author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
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To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.
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- Author Mary Jo Putney
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Something must be done about the food.” Seeing his speculative glance Clare laid down her fork and gave him a warning scowl. “Yes, I’m a good cook, but I will not have time to work in the kitchen. And don’t try to convince me that a mistress also has to cook for her lover.” “I wasn’t thinking of wasting your valuable time in the kitchen.” He smiled mischievously. “But a mistress can do interesting thing with food. Shall I describe them?” “No!” “Another time, perhaps.
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- Author Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter)
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I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I knew it in my mind, but now I know it in my heart.
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