#cook

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#cooking #dance #eastern #generally #i

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fish #governing #great #great nation #handling

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fish #govern #great #great nation #nation

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#appealing #beautiful #beautiful woman #cooking #dinner

If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane. ↗

— John Irving

#love #love

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. ↗

— Mel Brooks

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If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop. ↗

— James Broughton

#bitterness #cookie #get #i #into

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#casual #cooking #examination #fact #great

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun. ↗

— Alton Brown

#asking #attract #cook #cooking #did

I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded. ↗

— Alton Brown

#basic #become #cooking #different #different angles