Quotes about cooking

cook verb
1 : to prepare food for eating especially by means of heat (French cooking)
2 : to undergo the action of being cooked (the rice is cooking now)
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"There is in every cook's opinion
No savoury dish without an onion:
But lest your kissing should be spoiled
The onion must be thoroughly boiled." -Jonathan Swift

"Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook." -Ambrose Bierce

"My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you." -Nora Ephron

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

"In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection." -Curnonsky

"...poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter." -Brillat-Savarin

"Beef is the soul of cooking." -Marie Antoine Careme

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