Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
I wanna share my personal favorites of "Cooks Quotations".
Take pleasure in reading the quotes over a cup of coffee/tea & your favorite dessert….
/belle munoz
GOOD COOKING COMES FIRST
“One cannot live well, love well or sleep well unless one has dined well.”
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941), from “A Room of One’s Own”
“ When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, nor social harmony.”
MARIE-ANTOINE CAREME
COOKING AS AN ART
“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather
than exact measurements.”
MARCEL BOULESTIN, from “Petits et grands plats”
“Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.”
JULIA CHILD
FROM THE HEART
“ Happy and successful cooking doesn’t rely only on know-how; it comes from the heart, makes great demands on the palate and needs enthusiasm and a deep love of food to bring it to life.”
GEORGE BLANC, from “Ma Cuisine des Saisons”
“The secret of good cooking is first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”
JAMES BEARD
“The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.”
SOPHIA LOREN, b. 1934
CENTRAL TO LIFE ITSELF
“We must eat to live and to live to eat.”
HENRY FIELDING (1707-1754)
LIFE’S GREAT PLEASURE
“A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas…and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy.”
KEITH FLOYD
WITH APPRECIATION
“Cooking should be a carefully balanced reflection of all good things of the earth.”
JEAN AND PIERRE TROISGROS, from “The Nouvelle Cuisine of Jean and Pierre Troisgros”
Those who are one in food are one in life.
MALAGASY SAYING
THE “MIRACLE OF BREAD”
“Bread is the warmest, kindest of words. Write it always with a capital letter, like your own name.”
RUSSIAN CAFÉ SIGN
SPECIAL OCCASSIONS
“Everything ends this way in France – everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, funerals, swindlings, diplomatic affairs – everything is a pretext for a good dinner.”
JEAN ANOUILH (1910-1987), from “Cecile”
“Sharing food and drink is one of the oldest rituals in the world. Whether a guest is offered a drink by the host or a special beverage in a special cup initiates an occasion, the moment is of significance.”
PAMELA VANDYKE PRICE
“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
BONDING FAMILY AND FRIENDS
“ …even those for whom cooking is an oppressive chore or a source of self-doubting anxiety, acknowledge that a meal shared by friends and family is one of the bonding rituals without which the family, society even, can fall apart,”
ANTONIA TILL, from “Loaves & Whishes”
“Dining is the privilege of civilization…. The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.”
ISABELLA BEETON (1836-1865), from “The Book of Household Management”
THE KITCHEN – THE BEST ROOM
“…a friend…showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, ‘This is my office.’ I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.”
SHASHI DESHPANDE
