646 Quotes About Cooking

  • Author Lao Tzu
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    Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it

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  • Author William Makepeace Thackeray
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    This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

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  • Author Alice Waters
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    It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.

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  • Author Alice Waters
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    When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

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  • Author Johnny Weir
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    I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.

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  • Author M. Wolfe
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    It took a man to help us understand cooking is not a woman's drudgery. It took a man to show us that it could be fulfilling and wonderful.

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