"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."
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"Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup."
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"I can't stand people that do not take food seriously."
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"Cooking is the ultimate giving!"
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"Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!"
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"I think every woman should have a blowtorch."
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"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit."
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"Good wine is a necessity of life for me."
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"Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done."
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"Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need."
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"To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating."
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"The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness."
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"The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken."
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"Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?"
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"I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible."
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"You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking."
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"Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners."
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"To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living."
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"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
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"So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being."
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