"Noodles are not only amusing but delicious."
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"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook."
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"A party without cake is really just a meeting."
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"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients."
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"People who love to eat are always the best people."
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"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."
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"The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude."
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"In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear."
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"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."
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"I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages."
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"Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health."
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"Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba."
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"It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions."
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"Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music."
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"I think every woman should have a blowtorch."
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"...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should."
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"You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it."
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"Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need."
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"To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating."
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"How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly."
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