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Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart. -- John Updike
Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts. -- Tom Colicchio
I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry. -- Michael Symon
It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does. -- Lewis Carroll
I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...... -- Jimmy Buffett
A basket of freshly baked pastries like scones make breakfast easy for your host the next day. -- Clinton Kelly
Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure. -- William J. Clinton
I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting. -- Ewan McGregor
Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry. -- Sloane Crosley
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer. -- Cardinal Richelieu
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive. -- Isabella Beeton
I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise. -- Sean Sasser
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. -- Marie-Antoine Careme
All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart. -- John Updike
I'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time. -- Mike Birbiglia
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive! -- M. F. K. Fisher
Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well. -- Bobby Flay
Sweet Genius'' viewers will be on the edge of their seats as we continue to push the limits with inspirations and ingredients, while showcasing the talents of some of the best pastry chefs around. As a result, the desserts that the chefs create are truly outrageous. -- Ron Ben-Israel
Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook. -- Julia Child
Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients. -- Ron Ben-Israel
Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world. -- Muriel Barbery
I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell. -- Anton Chekhov
A very young girl, myself, and my 70-year-old mother all look quite different wearing some of the same clothes from my shop. The whole secret is to know how to do it and some people never will, just like some can't make light pastry: they are lacking in some sort of grace. -- Sonia Rykiel
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed. -- Cardinal Richelieu
Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries. -- Daniel Handler
Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries. -- Daniel Handler
Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck's puff pastries. -- Billy Crystal
Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke. -- Rene Redzepi
But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one. -- Michael Morpurgo
I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts. -- Gene Simmons
He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries. -- Dave Eggers

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