"...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing."
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"There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good."
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"Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili."
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"The way you make an omelet reveals your character."
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"It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it."
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"I love being at home and cooking and baking."
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"The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad."
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"To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking."
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"Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe."
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"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."
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"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities."
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"This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled."
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"I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by hand, because I want to remember the way it feels. It's so important for me to make it by hand - whether it's a pasta dough or a pâte brisée. You become involved in it. You become personal with it. For me it's such a wonderful way to get satisfaction and gratification when I'm cooking."
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"To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar."
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"I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it?"
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"Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks."
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"How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed."
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"Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most."
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"Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥"
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"The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down."
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