"Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating."
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"The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel."
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"You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens."
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"The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish than who's cooking it and why."
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"Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time."
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"The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure."
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"A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity."
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"It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating."
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"I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?"
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"It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking."
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"The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile."
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"When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show."
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"I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines borrow influences from all over the world."
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"Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you."
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"Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford."
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"I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually."
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"Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules."
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"Cooking is revolution and creation."
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"Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same."
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"Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life."
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