COOKING QUOTES IV

quotations about cooking

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A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

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A good cook has great power to assuage grief by his art.

MOUCHY

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Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.

PAUL THEROUX

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It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.

BILL WATTERSON

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You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can’t you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.

FERRAN ADRIA

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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

MARIO BATALI

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Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

PHYLLIS DILLER

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It is the art of cooking that makes the distinction of man and the lower animals; and a good cook who has a thorough knowledge of his art, should be entirely devoted to the gratification of taste, and the preservation of health.

M. UDE

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Just remember--it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.

JAMES BEARD

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

ALEXANDER POPE

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There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

MARY FRANCES KENNEDY FISHER

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When people think science and cooking, they have no idea that it's not correctly expressed. We're actually applying the scientific method. People think chemistry and physics are science, but the scientific method is something else.... It's the science that the world of cooking generates: science of butter; science of the croissant.

FERRAN ADRIA

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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."

LEV GROSSMAN

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The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

EVAN ESAR

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Because cooks love the social aspect of food, cooking for one is intrinsically interesting. A good meal is like a present, and it can feel goofy, at best, to give yourself a present. On the other hand, there is something life affirming in taking the trouble to feed yourself well, or even decently. Cooking for yourself allows you to be strange or decadent or both. The chances of liking what you make are high, but if it winds up being disgusting, you can always throw it away and order a pizza; no one else will know. In the end, the experimentation, the impulsiveness, and the invention that such conditions allow for will probably make you a better cook.

JENNI FERRARI-ADLER

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Cooking is like poetry, a combination of ingredients, ideas and concepts in no particular order. If your creativity is influenced by what you've read, eaten or seen cooked, then it's a good thing, something to be applauded.

PHILIP DUNDAS

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No one here will be surprised to hear me say that the Promethean fire which first raised humanity above the animal was the cooking fire.

BRIAN STABLEFORD

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Cooking for others had often been my way of offering care. So why, when I was alone, did I find myself trying to subsist on cereal and water?

JENNI FERRARI-ADLER

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If anything goes wrong at the table, the cook is forever dishonored; he survives not the disgrace; let him welcome death.

VATEL

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No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

LAURIE COLWIN

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