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Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

As in cooking, living requires that you taste, taste, taste as you go along.

I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.

A problem with school is that you often become what you study. If you study, let say cooking, you become a chef. If you study law, you become an attorney, and a study of auto mechanics makes you mechanics. The mistake in becoming what you study is that, too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich

Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.

Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke, and stynke.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

The breakfast food idea made its appearance in a little third-story room on the corner of 28th Street and Third Avenue, New York City....My cooking facilities were very limited, making it very difficult to prepare cereals. It often occurred to me that it should be possible to purchase cereals at groceries already cooked and ready to eat, and I considered different ways in which this might be done.

What I go for in my cooking is sinful, bold and real.

I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.