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You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it. -- Julia Child
To me, my recipes are priceless. -- Colonel Sanders
Recipes don't work unless you use your heart! -- Dylan Jones
Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key. -- Tom Colicchio
Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives. -- Michael Pollan
Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. -- Mario Batali
Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music. -- Michael Ruhlman
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. -- Karl Barth
It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor. -- Cassandra Clare
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that. -- Michael Symon
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. -- Paulo Coelho
Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache. -- Stephen King
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. -- Andre Maurois
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. -- Jane Austen
There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are -- Natalie Massenet
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. -- Arthur Helps
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. -- Thomas Keller
Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success. -- Dale Carnegie
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. -- Elbert Hubbard
Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes. -- Jose Garces
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. -- Carl Jung
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. -- Paul Valery
People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things. -- Judy Woodruff
This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun! -- Julia Child
What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team. -- Benjamin Franklin
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. -- Margaret Thatcher
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team. -- Benjamin Franklin Fairless
Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu. -- Jacques Pepin
- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded. -- Gustave Flaubert
Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity. -- Guy Fieri
I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes. -- Anna Chancellor
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. -- Zygmunt Bauman
When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics. -- Ina Garten
Pasta isn't just for Italian food anymore. Now there are tasty pasta recipes found in Asian cuisine, and it's emerging as a newfound love for vegans. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage. -- Heidi Klum
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin. -- Lucian Freud
My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had. -- Jamie Oliver
Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational. -- Homaro Cantu
I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Levi Roots. My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family. -- Jourdan Dunn
Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes. -- Paula Deen
Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather. -- Kristina McMorris
Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please? -- Brandon T. Jackson
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better. -- Erin Morgenstern
I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays. -- Emeril Lagasse
I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love. -- Michelle Obama
To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam. -- Giada De Laurentiis
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right. -- Julia Child
The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite the characters, and we tied them to about 50 recipes. It's like a memoir-cookbook. -- Tony Danza
Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Science is a collection of successful recipes. -- Paul Valery
I carried recipes in my head like maps. -- Joanne Harris
Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking. -- Paul Romer
Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA. -- Matt Ridley
An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out. -- Elizabeth David
Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't. -- Thomas Keller
I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection -- Arthur Helps
I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless. -- Paul Prudhomme
I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules? -- Emeril Lagasse
One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment. -- Thomas Keller
I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals. -- Ingrid Newkirk
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. -- Grant Achatz
I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again. -- Elizabeth David
I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough. -- Jeremy Jackson
Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg. -- Christine Teigen
I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books. -- Diane Mott Davidson
I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure. -- Cara Buono
Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes. -- A. J. Jacobs
I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are. -- Irma S. Rombauer
As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas. -- Jose Andres Puerta
The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it. -- Hod Lipson
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices. -- Aarti Sequeira
My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family. -- Jourdan Dunn
I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. -- Thomas Keller
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines. -- Audre Lorde
Baking isLife. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes.. -- Jenny Colgan
When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes. -- Tom Douglas
I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen! -- Bernard Kelvin Clive
A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide. -- Thomas Keller
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I'm really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now - but you'll never catch me being boring. -- Harry Shum, Jr.
Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion. -- Neal Shusterman
These simple to prepare recipes should inspire anyone who wants to honor their body-God's Temple-and feed their family from a biblical perspective. -- Jordan Rubin
This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine. -- Diana Kennedy
I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world. -- Jose Andres Puerta
I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries. -- Joanna Lumley
Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level. -- Queen Latifah
Tenacious D loves Auntie Em's. Her delicious nutrients are always energizing and indie-fresh. Where does she find those unbelievable recipes? Somewhere over the rainbow? -- Jack Black
I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred? -- Karen Marie Moning
Different brands are indeed different, and that's the challenge of developing recipes for a cooker. But just like anything, you have to be flexible. -- Michele Scicolone
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen -- Rita Rudner
Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that. -- Michael Symon
In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat. -- Delia Smith
On my show I share all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation, in moderation. You can have that little piece of pie. -- Paula Deen
I think the best shortcut is to choose really simple recipes. Because I think you can make simple recipes that are as delicious as complicated ones. -- Ina Garten
America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes? -- Michael Pollan
I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes. -- Chuck Palahniuk
There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me. -- Kimberly Schlapman
We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then. -- Ferran Adria
Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines. -- Bill Vaughan
It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything. -- Maya Angelou
Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients. -- Jeremy Jackson
I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me. -- Lance Bass
It's like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works for you won't work for another. -- Carole Bouquet
But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty. -- Margaret George
Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute. -- Jeff Smith
I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well. -- Hod Lipson
My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking. -- Bethenny Frankel
I used to write cookbooks. It was passion to try to bring healthy and fun recipes to people's homes. It was a way to bring my home to theirs. -- Wolfgang Puck
Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes. -- G. Garvin

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