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Julia Child

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Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.
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JEAN-GEORGES VONGERICHTEN
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
LAURIE COLWIN
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SIRIO MACCIONI
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BOBBY FLAY
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NADIA GIOSIA
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NADIA GIOSIA
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ANNE BURRELL
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CHUCK NORRIS
It's not about exact measurements or ingredients', shrugged Lomax, when Joseph complained. 'Good foo...
ALEX GEORGE
I have always been interested in food preparation. When I was a child, I would watch my mother cooki...
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
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You won't find cigarettes or paper products or baby food at The Fresh Market.
ERIC BLAESING
I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.
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DOROTHY DUNBAR
You dont have to live forever just live.
NATALIE BABBITT
The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts ...
PEARL BAILEY
Kat didn't want to cook this evening, and this is terribly good food.
BOB PORTER
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NORA EPHRON
We have everything from the simplest to complicated. We have nothing a good high school or college l...
GEORGE WOLFE
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The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you...
JOEL ROBUCHON
Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.
MICHAEL POLLAN
They had so much food Sunday, I didn't have to cook.
JEFF JAMES
Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child.
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She has become the Julia Child of sex.
GLORIA STEINEM
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AL ROKER
I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.
LAURA ESQUIVEL
It must have tasted good if you've been eating canned food for weeks and want something fresh.
LEE ROBINSON
Had a cold hummus with pita bread,
Under a delicious food, yellow or red.
Might just hav...
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These young people are leaving home for the first time and they have little knowledge of food or how...
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AIMEE BENDER
If you wish to cook, the recipe for success is to follow a good chef, follow his approach & ingr...
SHAHENSHAHHK
I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon.
DEYTH BANGER
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DEYTH BANGER
I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.
EVA LONGORIA
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TED ALLEN
And you don't have to cook anything ? you just chop.
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MICHAEL SHOWALTER
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If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or...
BERNIE SANDERS
Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real,...
MARK HYMAN
I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
AARON SANCHEZ
People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.
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MELANIE MCGRICE
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INA GARTEN
All the food we had, we either had to cook it up fast or give it away.
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TRISTRAM STUART
It's not fancy, it's just good,
DANNY MEYER
I dont know what was wrong with us. Either we were nervous or were just not that good.
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MARIA SHARAPOVA
But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as...
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You have more to fear from those who think they know you,Than from those who know they dont.
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It was a simple move so customers can see the produce being made and see how fresh our ingredients a...
SCOTT SIMONS
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CHARLIE TROTTER
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KAREN GOODMAN
I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.
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Some cook, some bake, I just make the kind of food that keeps the doctor away...
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ERIC ALLMAN
I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.
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She has been staying with me since April 4. It's been working out good. It's better for them because...
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The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet l...
DREW CAREY
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KATE CHRISTENSEN
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network, but I don't like to cook.
JANEANE GAROFALO
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
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DOMINIK GARCIA-LORIDO
Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It&#...
RON BEN-ISRAEL
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BUDDY VALASTRO
people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ
We're not talking about rocket science here. It's simple food, but it will be fast, fresh, and good.
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LYDIA M. CHILD
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others...
LYDIA M. CHILD
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evi...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Home / that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and hel...
LYDIA M. CHILD
The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the ...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel...
LYDIA M. CHILD
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write ab...
JULIA GLASS
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in ...
JULIA GILLARD
That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are ear...
JULIA GLASS
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. Al...
JULIA GLASS
I could make apple pie every single day. You need to be super precise in order for it to be perfect....
JULIA MICHAELS
When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you ...
JULIA ROBERTS
I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Pet...
JULIA GILLARD
When you first start out, people think this is super easy and you find your crew super quick. But yo...
JULIA MICHAELS
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.
JULIA GLASS
I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for...
JULIA STILES
From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way, Cleaving with flas...
JULIA LARNED
I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look ...
JULIA ROBERTS
We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespear...
JULIA STILES
when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insig...
JULIA GREGSON
Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.
JULIA WOODRUFF
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork ...
JULIA GLASS
Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.
JULIA QUINN
I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my li...
JULIA QUINN
She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put y...
JULIA GREGSON
It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party.
JULIA FIERRO
There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not ...
JULIA QUINN
I bought you something" Willows blurts out.
"You bought...What?"
Willow closes her eyes fo...
JULIA HOBAN
The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often th...
JULIA KAVANAGH
Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
JULIA PHILLIPS
I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes of...
JULIA ROBERTS
In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally ...
JULIA CAMERON
If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.
JULIA SOUL
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum
JULIA CAMERON
What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read th...
JULIA ROBERTS
What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read t...
JULIA ROBERTS
And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.
JULIA QUINN
If you go, then I'll miss you.. terribly
JULIA HOBAN