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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
- Firm Believer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
- Chemistry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that molecular gastronomy is a field of science. I would - I would say that it's probably lumped under chemistry, maybe. Because cooking, while it has certainly biology and some physics, it's mostly chemistry.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job has changed over the years, 22 years roughly I've been cooking professionally. When I was younger, I aspired to be the star player. Now, it's more I like to sit in the dugout and make sure the team wins the game.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a funny thing, but it's often overlooked that I'm a huge devout lover of French cooking. I have the utmost respect for them, though they have lost their respect for me because they think the way I cook is nutty.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know music either, but I became a composer. Acting too is like that. It's like cooking for your siblings when your mother is away. You have a responsibility and you try to do a good job.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020