Top 25 Quotes by Peg Bracken of 56 - Page 3

The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker.

The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.

Peg Bracken

Fire, Rocks, Eggs

Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

Peg Bracken

Vegetables, Taste, Facts

Peg Bracken (1960). “The I hate to cook book”, Harcourt

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

Peg Bracken

Want

When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

Peg Bracken

Sound, Recipes, Devotion

"I Didn't Come Here to Argue (My Feud With Food)". Book by Peg Bracken (p. 22), 1969.

There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.

Peg Bracken

Food, Comforting, Forgotten

Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books