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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
My mom's cooking was all about comfort, flavor, and plenty of butter. It was so hearty.
The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.
I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh.
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.
Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.
You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes?
Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store.
CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.
I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.
A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.
Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.
In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.
There is enough going on in Olympic year without having to do my own cooking and washing.
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.
You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.
I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome.
What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.
Cooking is a weird thing. In homes, I'd wager it's still women who do more of the cooking.
I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.
During the holidays it's like cooking central time so keeping it safe is an important part.
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
If I really don't feel like cooking, I have a bowl of lentil pasta with Rao's jarred sauce.
Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.
So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.
The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.