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"Cookery is not chemistry.  It is an art.  It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements."

- Marcel Boulestin

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"Never work before breakfast.  If you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first."

- Josh Billings

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"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity."

- Voltaire

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"A recipe has no soul.  You, as the cook, must bring the soul to the recipe."

- Thomas Keller

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"If God had intended us to follow recipes he wouldn't have given us Grandmothers."

- Linda Henley

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"The colours of a fresh garden salad are so extraordinary, no painters pallet can duplicate nature's artistry."

- Dr SunWolf

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"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating."

- Luciano Pavarotti 

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"Fervet olla, vivit amicitia: While the pot boils, frendships endure." (Meaning - The person who serves good food has plenty of friends).

- Latin Proverb.   

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"We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink."

- Epicurus

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"A fish should swim three times - in water, in butter and in wine."

- Polish Proverb 

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Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.

- Thomas Keller

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There is no spectacle more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

- Tom Wolfe

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"I never get tired of cooking.  I do get tired of washing up."

- Anonymous 

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"I don't believe in low-fat cooking"

                                - Nigella Lawson

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"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."

- Julia Child

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"I like the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie.  I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach.  There are a lot of similarities to it."

- Todd English

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"Cooking is like love.  It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."

- Harriet Van Horne