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After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Writing is work and cooking is relaxing. -- Diane Mott Davidson
Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast. -- Dolly Parton
There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home. -- Sally Schneider
But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture. -- Eddie Huang
In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business. -- Ted Allen
There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home. -- Delia Smith
I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again. -- Kiran Desai
After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths. -- Kate Christensen
I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again. -- Robert Harris
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove. -- M. F. K. Fisher
It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun... -- Trisha Yearwood

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