"The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher."
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"Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus."
"If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate."
"The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them."
"Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --"
"My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen."
"Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?"
"And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprintit’s no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania"
"From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men."
"A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel."
"The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink."
"It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking."
"I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories"
"At Nature's Kitchen we take pride in saying that we wouldn't serve anything to your children that we wouldn't feed to our own children."
"In restaurants across America we see Latino workers in the kitchen who are being paid substandard wages. The saddest thing to me is that if we think about these workers, these are the people with the least access to good food. Yet they're often suffering from the highest rates of obesity and diet-related illnesses."
"I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces."
"I keep the "ThunderCats" thermos safely in the kitchen."
"We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds."
"I think we should be honest about who is working in our kitchens."
"You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens."