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Cookbook Author Inspirational Quotes (136)

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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes, and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.
Thomas Keller
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A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational it should be a guide.
Thomas Keller
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Vegetables to me are - I don't want to say the most exciting part of cooking, but certainly a very exciting part of cooking, because they continue to change. They come into season and they go through different phases.
Thomas Keller
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They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.
Thomas Keller
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In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.
Thomas Keller
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Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.
Marcella Hazan
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I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.
Jeff Smith
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When faced with the choice, choose happy
Valerie Bertinelli
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I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.
Marcella Hazan
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My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
Thomas Keller
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Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.
Anna Thomas
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I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery.
Jeff Smith
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought: 'That's it. I'm not buying the next size'.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.
Thomas Keller
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Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.
Anna Thomas
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
Valerie Bertinelli
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The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.
Marcella Hazan
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What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.
Marcella Hazan
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Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.
Marian Burros
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