"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."
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"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
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"But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared."
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"I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously..."
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"When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal."
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"There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around."
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"The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy."
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"The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3)."
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"Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess."
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"Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old."
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"Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as hath been found in some great Tobacco takers, that after their death were opened."
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"The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science."
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"Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen."
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"The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink."
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"Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint."
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"Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out."
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"Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face."
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"Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator."
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"Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one"
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"When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again."
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