William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality."
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Diogenes
Philosopher
"If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate."
Jamie Oliver
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you."
Ted Allen
Chef
"I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles."
Jeff Smith
Chef
"Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy."
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"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."
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"Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!"
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"We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted."
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"There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat."
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"You take romance - I'll take Jell-O."
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"He receives comfort like cold porridge."
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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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"Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations."
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"I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it."
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"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all."
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"Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one."
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"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."
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"For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today."
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"Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba."
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"Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal."
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"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."
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"Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup."
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"I can't stand people that do not take food seriously."
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"Cooking is the ultimate giving!"
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"Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!"
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