- Gardening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking Quotes
On family kitchens, music, and the craft of cooking.
These quotes cover cooking as both chore and craft—lessons learned young at home, music that makes the task lighter, and the dream of running a restaurant serving a specific regional cuisine. See our family quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Multitasking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.
- Chop
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- Nov 07, 2020
With wok cooking, you chop things up into little pieces for maximum surface area, so they can cook in minutes, if not seconds. Sauteing is energy efficient; baking is not.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we have friends over for dinner, I do the cooking. I like the pressure of a big meal and the technical challenges of a roast.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was about seven, I've loved cooking. I'd wake up at five in the morning and make cinnamon rolls and all these different things.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.
- Heat
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020