"Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it."
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"My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week."
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"I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country."
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"If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody."
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"Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!"
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"Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook."
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"Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled."
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"I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way."
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"I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right."
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"I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male."
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"Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes."
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"In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless."
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"She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous."
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"...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works."
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"Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever?"
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"Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot."
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"...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended."
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"No one's more important than people."
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"I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy."
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"I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades"
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