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"Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create."
"Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff."
"You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life"
"You must have discipline to have fun."
"If you're afraid of butter, use cream."
"Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!"
"Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die."
"the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create."
"Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences."
"Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life"
"The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly."
"There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter."
"I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking."
"One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat."
"One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed."
"The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head."
"Fat gives things flavor."
"Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish."
"I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was."
"Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything."