"I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up."
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"Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food."
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"There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty."
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"There are reasons, and then there are excuses."
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"If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor."
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"There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables."
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"If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done."
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"I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat."
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"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."
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"I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important."
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"It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert."
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"Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant."
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"Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?"
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"We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time."
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"The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them."
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"I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago."
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"My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area."
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"I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background."
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"But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on."
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"We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person."
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