"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself."
"A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked."
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"Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window"
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