"A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man."
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"The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked"
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"My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am."
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"I think careful cooking is love, don't you?"
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"The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well."
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"It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him."
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"So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff."
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"Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping."
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"I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking."
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"Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free."
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"Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking."
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"I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways."
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"Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs."
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"The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit."
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"It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance."
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"A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!"
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"I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious."
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"Hell is probably quite similar to most Paris bistros ... a bit overheated, somewhat too crowded, and a little too noisy for my tastes. The waiters will surely treat you rudely and the cashiers will always add a few extra francs to your bill but ... and this is the important part ... the food will be marvelous."
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"Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see."
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"If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste."
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