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Quotes About Cooking

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~ ELIZABETH CLARKE PH.D
churning, baking, spinning and soap-making. In summer
~ Elizabeth Enright
Single people eat sadly--they cobble together things left from shopping trips based on dreams of all the meals they'd fix for themselves, all the ways they'd treat themselves to something grand; those dreams, for me, died by the next day and, despite my best hopes, I wanted only canned hash and apples.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
don't you make pancakes?" It was a family custom to have pancakes
~ Elizabeth Strout
I never understood my first cooking lesson. I was six and had chicken pox, and my mother, having exhausted all other entertainments, began to explain how to boil an egg. The water must be salted. "It's to keep them from cracking." She regarded the egg. "But they still crack." We pondered this for a moment, then I nodded. Whether it cracked or not, obviously an egg had to be pacified with an offering of salt.
~ Arthur E. Grosser
Then he noticed a little row-boat at about two hundred yards from the shore. There were two or three people aboard, he could not quite make out how many, and they were no doubt fishing, and Merritt (who disliked fish) wondered how people could spoil such an afternoon, such a sea, such pellucid and radiant air by trying to catch white, flabby, offensive, evil-smelling creatures that would be excessively nasty when cooked.
~ Arthur Machen
once the cooking is complete, without you actually doing anything. In terms of the Instant Pot, once the cooking is complete and your pot has shifted to the "KEEP WARM" setting, you should understand that
~ Arvind Singh
In the deep sauté, she has made a stew: eggplant and tomatoes, onions and summer squash, a sort of ratatouille, tiella, samfina, pisto , there are as many names for it as countries, and she has stopped caring for all the names of things. She has made stew, and there are ripe peaches and cream for dessert, a few bottles of wine to choose from.
~ Ashley Warlick
from Assata's time cooking at the free breakfast program for kids: One little girl came over to me and tapped me on the back. 'There's something wrong with your pancakes.' 'What's wrong with them?' 'They don't taste good.
~ Assata Shakur
The very best method (not practical in most areas) is to cook the cod in clear sea water, adding an extra portion of salt.
~ Astrid Karlsen Scott
Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.
~ Auguste Escoffier
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.
~ Augustus William Hare
Hope you like my gumbo." "I know we will," Colt said, and took a bite. "Not too spicy for you?" the cook asked with a laugh. "As long as it doesn't melt the spoon, it's not too spicy for me.
~ B.J. Daniels
Pepper mills (aka pepper grinders) rank just behind knives as primary causes of horrific kitchen accidents, according to an unofficial study that occurred in my life experience.
~ Chris Morocco
What is feminism? We are just asking for equal opportunities, nothing beyond that. It doesn't mean that you cannot be pretty or you cannot cook or you can't do a whole lot of things. Feminism's got a bad rap; that's it.
~ Twinkle Khanna
Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It's what actually kept me grounded through those crazy years.
~ Coolio
Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants.
~ Mike Ditka
Iberico de Bellota is best when cooked medium rare with a nice, pink center to allow the delicious acorn-infused flavor to come through.
~ Jose Andres
When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.
~ David Chang
I eat meat, the rarer the better.
~ Dominique Swain
My success rate is about 80 percent. Two of ten dishes won't work.
~ Alvin Leung
I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.
~ Milo Ventimiglia
A successful shrimp boil requires layering ingredients into the pot so that everything is done cooking at once. A carefully timed choreography dictates the order in which ingredients are added to ensure no one has to eat raw potatoes or chewy shrimp.
~ Samin Nosrat
Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi