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Cooking Is Just As Creative And Imaginative An Activity As Drawing, Or Wood Carving, Or Music. And Cooking Draws Upon Your Every Talent--science, Mathematics, Energy, History, Experience--and The More Experience You Have, The Less Likely Are Your Experiments To End In Drivel And Disaster. The More You Know, The More You Can Create.

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Cooking Is Just As Creative And Imaginative An Activity As Drawing, Or Wood Carving, Or Music. And Cooking Draws Upon Your Every Talent--science, Mathematics, Energy, History, Experience--and The More Experience You Have, The Less Likely Are Your Experiments To End In Drivel And Disaster. The More You Know, The More You Can Create.

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Fat Gives Things Flavor.

My Mother Was Independent. She Had Grown Up In Dalton And Pittsfield, In Western Massachusetts, And She Was One Of The First Women Drivers In That Area.

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I Don't Believe In Twisting Yourself Into Knots Of Excuses And Explanations Over The Food You Make.... Usually One's Cooking Is Better Than One Thinks It Is. And If The Food Is Truly Vile...then The Cook Must Simply Grit Her Teeth And Bear It With A Smile.

If You're Not Ready To Fail, You're Not Going To Learn How To Cook.

I Love To Teach - That's My Role.

I Still Feel That French Cooking Is The Most Important In The World, One Of The Few That Has Rules. If You Follow The Rules, You Can Do Pretty Well.

Ye Gods! But You're Not Standing Around Holding It By The Hand All This Time. No. [...] [t]he Dough Takes Care Of Itself. [...] While You Cannot Speed Up The Process, You Can Slow It Down At Any Point By Setting The Dough In A Cooler Place [...] Then Continue Where You Left Off, When You Are Ready To Do So. In Other Words, You Are The Boss Of That Dough.

You Have To Do It And Do It, Until You Get It Right.

You'll Never Know Everything About Anything, Especially Something You Love.

Something You Love

Moderation. Small Helpings. Sample A Little Bit Of Everything. These Are The Secrets Of Happiness And Good Health.

No One's More Important Than People.

If You're Buying Tomatoes Pick Them Up And Smell Them-they Should Have A Lovely Perfume. They Need To Be Kept At Fifty Degrees Or Above, Particularly During The Growing Season, Because That's When They Develop Their Flavor.

I Think Careful Cooking Is Love, Don't You? The Loveliest Thing You Can Cook For Someone Who's Close To You Is About As Nice A Valentine As You Can Give.

Never Apologize For Your Cooking.

I Wouldn't Keep Him Around Long If I Didn't Feed Him Well.

The Shellfish Thing Is Very Scary. You Have To Know The People You Buy From And Exactly Where Their Wholesalers Are Getting The Fish From.

A Cookbook Is Only As Good As Its Poorest Recipe.

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