Approach love and cooking with equal abandon. -The Dalai Lama

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My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. -Nora Ephron

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We owe much to the fruitful mediation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen. -Joseph Conrad

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For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. -Anthony Bourdain

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The dangerous person in the kitchen is the one who goes rigidly by weights, measurements, thermometers and scales. -X. Marcel Boulestin

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The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star. -Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles. -Nora Ephron

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I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking. -Katherine Cebrian

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I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation. -Madame Benoit

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We're not building a rocket ship here. We're cooking, plain and simple. -Emeril Lagasse

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