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“Mark came home late one frozen Sunday carrying a bag of small, silver fish. They were smelts, locally known as icefish. Hed brought them at the store in the next town south, across from which a lit...”
“In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it, gather ingredients and labor over its creation.”
“There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.”
“Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.”
“I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.”
“This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.”
“The feet-on-the-stove stance of this book is a deliberate attempt to cure myself, and anyone else who will listen, of the nasty habit of worrying the world to pieces like a terrier with a rag. What...”
“Shed have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.”
“Technology is too crazy for me, but I would be very happy when they make phone that can cook.”
“Save the Planet...Buy Organic”
“Food commonly eaten for more than 150 years should be innocent until proven guilty, and food invented in the last 150 years is guilty until proven innocent.”
“A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman”
“That was my first real experience at feeling set apart. Not only did I not knock them dead, but rather it was I that died...acutely aware of being mutton dressed up as lamb. I exchanged my white ti...”
“[The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spi...”
“In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. "The trick is moderation," he said.”
“Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,And imprint forever upon our heartsThat this is homeand that we are loved.”
“When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would mak...”
“Cooking gives you the opportunity to meet the things you eat. You can touch each carrot or olive and get to know its smell and texture.You can feel its weight and notice its color and form. If it i...”
“She ate it and cried.Soon, he put the melting ice cream away."Shura," Tatiana whispered, "darling, forget what should have been. Remember all that was.""Tatiasha, babe," Alexander whispered, coming...”
“The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drle, n'est-ce pas'?”
