646 Quotes About Cooking

  • Author Yotam Ottolenghi
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    I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.

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  • Author Yotam Ottolenghi
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    Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

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  • Author Erik Peterson
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    One flush of today's Western toilet would provide enough water for washing, cooking and eating for one person in a developing country.

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  • Author James Patterson
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    Huh - Why is Max in the kitchen?" Dr.Martinez: "We're cooking." Gazzy: "She's just keeping you company, right?" Dr.Martinez: "No, she's cooking." Nudge: "Cooking...food?" Max: "Yes, I'm cooking food, and it's great, and you're going to eat it, you twerps!

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  • Author Michael Pollan
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    Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

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  • Author Michael Pollan
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    One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

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  • Author Michael Pollan
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    It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.

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  • Author Michael Pollan
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    A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

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