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"Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction."
"A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway."
"If you're afraid of butter, use cream."
"the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create."
"I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking."
"I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit."
"It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club."
"It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking."
"We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight."
"Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial."
"He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions."
"Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done."
"Noel [Charles, husband] and I love cooking. He does his cooking and I do mine. I'm the traditional English cook, with a twist now and then. Because I was married to an Italian, I'm also pretty good at Italian food. Noel, he can cook anything, so can Julian."
"Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you"
"I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that."
"Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes."
"A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm."
"Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?"
"Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it."
"I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it."
