There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

Frances Mayes
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  2. I love you like a fat kid loves cake! - Scott Adams

  3. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. - Virginia Woolf

  4. There is no love sincerer than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw

  5. It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing... - M.F.K. Fisher

More Quotes By Frances Mayes
  1. I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

  2. A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

  3. You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun—who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing.

  4. Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

  5. There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.

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