Cooking proverbs

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◆ The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

- Calvin Trillin99

◆ He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

- H.L. Mencken99

◆ Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

- John Green99

◆ No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

- Laurie Colwin99

◆ Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

- Anthony Bourdain99

◆ 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 Wolfe99

◆ Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

- Julia Child99

◆ If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.

- John Irving99

◆ ...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

- Julia Child99

◆ Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

- Craig Claiborne99

◆ Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.

- Julia Child99

◆ Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

- Ruth Reichl99

◆ To make my meal in a box taste better, I decided to tweak the logo, rather than the ingredients.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes.

- Julia Child99