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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
HARRIET VAN HORNE, Vogue magazine, Oct. 15, 1956
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
THOMAS WOLFE, The Web and the Rock
To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
ELSA SCHIAPARELLI, Shocking Life
I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.
ALTON BROWN, interview, Sep. 12, 2002
Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.
P.J. O'ROURKE, The Bachelor Home Companion
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
JULIA CHILD, New York Times, Nov. 26, 1986
If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.
TOM JAINE, London Daily Telegraph, Oct. 19, 1989
Nobody thinks it’s silly to invest two hours’ work in two minutes’ enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so is the ballet.
JULIA CHILD, NBC TV, Dec. 1, 1966
No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.
ALTON BROWN, interview, Sep. 12, 2002
All cooking is a matter of time. In general, the more time the better.
JOHN ERSKINE, The Complete Life
'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
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