"Man is an animal that cooks his victuals."
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"I like to cook things very slowly."
"I'm a rather crude cook."
"[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher."
"Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'"
"I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already."
"When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at."
"Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are."
"I love to cook.. but nothing that had to die."
"please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean."
"Sorry, I'm not much of a cook."
"Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook."