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On skill built through practice and love.

One quote credits a mother with a lifetime spent baking and cooking at a genuinely skilled level, tying the craft to Love and family rather than formal training. Another compares a good stage play to a good meal at home, joking that both depend on someone — a wife or a hired cook — being genuinely great at the job.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Good Meal
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Nov 07, 2020

Doing a good play on the stage is like eating a good meal at home - assuming your wife is a great cook or that she's hired a great cook.

Quotes by Walter Matthau

Failure
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Nov 07, 2020

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

Quotes by Mandy Patinkin

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

When anybody is just starting the process of cooking, I always say it takes practice, and nobody got to be a great cook on their first try.

Quotes by Damaris Phillips

Creative
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Nov 07, 2020

My mom was a great cook and also a very creative cook.

Quotes by Anne Burrell

A more practical quote traces kitchen failure back to a lack of real, workmanlike regard for knives, treating cooking as a craft built on technique as much as raw Creativity. Another closes the theme with encouragement: nobody becomes a great cook on the first try, and practice is what eventually turns effort into real Joy in the kitchen.

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