"Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth."
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"I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating."
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"No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake."
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"Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking."
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"Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be."
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"No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses."
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"Appetite, a universal wolf."
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"Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy."
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"And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food."
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"If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music."
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"The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material."
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"If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything."
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"You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread."
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"Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter."
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"Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing."
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"I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot."
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"Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking."
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"Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby."
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"The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people."
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"Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute."
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