Thomas Keller
Chef, Restaurateur
"A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide."
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Lucian Freud
Painter
"Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder."
Julia Child
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other."
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"- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow."
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"Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache."
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"I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love."
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"Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe."
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"A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe."
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"An algorithm is like a recipe."
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"I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again."
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"Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again"
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"Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot."
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"Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't."
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"There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster."
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"This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine."
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"I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories."
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"My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had."
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"Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute."
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"We've got to identify new strategies to use cleaner energy, because that is a recipe for reducing the overall amount of pollution that's out there."
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"Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself."
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"Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others."
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"Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe."
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"The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe."
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