"I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression."
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"You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright."
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"Bait the hook well. This fish will bite."
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"Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult."
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"Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen."
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"One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment."
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"Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't."
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"Never apologize for your cooking."
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"Hunger is the best sauce in the world."
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"For me, if there's anything that would represent me and my style of cooking, it would be a seafood platter. Maybe a perfectly shucked oyster with a bit of lemon and cocktail sauce or mignonette sauce."
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"Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for."
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"Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?"
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"And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats."
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"The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him."
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"'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit."
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"Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy."
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"He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God."
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"Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep."
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"The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard."
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"The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers."
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