"The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food."
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"I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote."
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"Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt."
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"Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing."
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"Cooking can be like foreplay."
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"We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink."
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"On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves."
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"There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process."
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"I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character."
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"I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration."
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"Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented."
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"The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them."
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"Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes."
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"Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms."
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"Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me."
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"Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook."
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"When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up."
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"Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food."
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"Pray how does your asparagus perform?"
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"I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle."
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