"This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!"
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"Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house."
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"Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food."
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"If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles."
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"We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are."
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"If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food."
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"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor."
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"What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless."
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"Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?"
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"A human can be healthy without killing animals for food."
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"You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking."
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"To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean."
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"Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners."
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"To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living."
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"My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready."
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"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."
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"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
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"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
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"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."
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"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
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