"Eating is the secret to good cooking."
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"We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event."
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"The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen."
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"You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love."
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"Life itself is the proper binge."
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"A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine."
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"A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe."
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"People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical."
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"How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?"
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"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet."
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"Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake."
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"Never apologize for your cooking."
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"The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile."
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"A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms."
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"The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed."
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"I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything."
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"I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give."
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"Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured."
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"Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy."
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"It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire."
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