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“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”
Gail Sheehy
“Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.”
Julia Child
“It does not matter how expensive your kitchen is if you are a bad cook.”
Loesje
“Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes”
George Norman Douglas
“Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.”
Lao Tzu
“One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster.”
Rene Veaux
“Talk doesn't cook rice.”
Chinese Proverbs
“It ain't what you got, it's what you know and do with what you got, ... The difference between a cook and a chef is understanding what's going on.”
Alton Brown
“Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.”
Milton Glaser
“He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.”
Craig Claiborne