"I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome."
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"It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit."
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"I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians."
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"God comes to the hungry in the form of food."
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"I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese."
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"If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner."
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"Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs."
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"Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you."
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"I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well."
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"The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance."
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"If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago."
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"I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service."
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"Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?"
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"Wine enlivens the human soul."
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"Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast."
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"Cooking? Oh we were great, you'd take anything and melt cheese on it, and the one who could guess what it was didn't have to wash up!"
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"Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets."
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"Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form."
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"I do a lot of cooking. I've always cooked for my family and my father and I cooked together. It's just one of the things I like to do. If you came around my house for dinner, you'd watch me cook as we sat around the kitchen and cooked and talked. For me, that's centralised... friendship and family around food and cooking."
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"'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows."
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