Thoughts On the Business of Life - ABOUT COOKING?
Forbes Magazine
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MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2002
The double whammy of inflation and recession has wrought what I think will be a long-lasting and significant change in the eating ways and mores of American families. Do-it-yourself is back. More families are being subjected to fresh vegetables, fresh fruits and homemade bread. After thus rediscovering the joy of cooking and the incomparable flavor of the fresh, it is highly unlikely that Americans will go back in the same numbers to higher-priced plastic foods, even when incomes climb again. --MALCOLM S. FORBES (1975)
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!--THOMAS CARLYLE
Kissing don't last: cookery do!--GEORGE MEREDITH
'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.--SHAKESPEARE
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.--HARRIET VAN HORNE
Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.--CALVIN TRILLIN
I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.--JAMES BEARD
The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.--BRYAN MILLER
The reason why Chinese vegetables tasteso good is simple: The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!--JEFF SMITH
In the childhood memories of every good cook, there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom. --BARBARA COSTIKYAN
What my mother believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.--NORA EPHRON
Few things are more revolting than the spectacle of a normally reasonable father and husband gowned in a hot apron inscribed with corny legends, presiding over a noisome brazier as he destroys huge hunks of good meat and fills the neighborhood with greasy, acrid smoke: a Boy Scout with five o'clock shadow.--DONALD ROGERS
A Text...
And straightaway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe: help thou mine unbelief.--Mark 9:24
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