"Hunger is never delicate."
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"Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation."
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"Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef."
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"Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery."
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"Vegetables to me are - I don't want to say the most exciting part of cooking, but certainly a very exciting part of cooking, because they continue to change. They come into season and they go through different phases."
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"I like being at home and cooking."
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"And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food."
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"The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it."
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"Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it."
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"Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?"
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"As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings."
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"On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it."
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"It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it."
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"If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food."
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"Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses."
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"One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed."
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"Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish."
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"Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything."
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"In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking."
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"You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat."
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