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Cooking Quotes - Page 24

Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it-is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies.

Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

Lewis Carroll, Nickolas Cook (2011). “Alice in Zombieland”, p.144, Sourcebooks, Inc.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

"Julia Child's centennial: celebrating America's beloved no-frills chef" by Amanda Holpuch, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2012.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

Graham Greene (1994). “In Search of a Character: Two African Journals”, Penguin USA