My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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W.C. Fields
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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Calvin Trillin
Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I'm cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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Bill Watterson
If god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.
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Linda Henley
What impressed me most was how hard [Julia Child] worked, how devoted she was to the "rules" of la cuisine française while keeping herself open to creative exploration, and how determined she was to persevere in the face of setbacks. Julia never lost her sense...
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Alex PrudHomme
More Quotes By Oona Chaplin
If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.
Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.
My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.
The most classic French dessert around the holidays is the Christmas log, with butter cream. Two flavors. Chocolate and coconut. My first job in the kitchen when I was a boy was to make these Christmas logs.
