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In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
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The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.
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Nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.
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I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.
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The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
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But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.
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Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again.
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We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.
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My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.
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"Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food.
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Certainly one of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
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The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a 'What the hell?' attitude.
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Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.
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You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.
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Sometimes...it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.
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Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so is the ballet.
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Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!
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This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook — try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!
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The waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.
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It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.
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There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry — architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.
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I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it—and, more importantly, I like it.
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The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.
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One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.
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Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
August 15, 1912
Died:
August 13, 2004
(aged 91)
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