"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."

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"The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for."
- Sofia Loren
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“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
- Francois De La Rouchefoucald
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"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."
- Leigh Hunt
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"Typically a weekend retreat for the heart, soul and palate, brunch is the perfect way to unwind and reconnect."
- Marcela Valladolid
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"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."
- Adelle Davis
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"Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon, or not at all."
- Harriet Vorne Horne
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"Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat."
- Guy Fieri
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"Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it."
- George Tillman, Jr.
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"I’m a home cook and love to read about food, but I’m not trained as a chef. I’m just really into cooking and passionate about it."
- Ted Allen
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“Cooking is an expression that crosses boundaries.”
- Ranveer Brar
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"Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct."
- Dennis Leary
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"I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food."
- Laura Esquivel
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"I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food."
- W.C. Fields
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"There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect."
- Mario Batali
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"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."
- Julia Child
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"Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy."
- Mary Berry
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"I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it’s about perfection."
- Ree Drummond
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“Cooking done with care is an act of love.”
- Craig Claiborne
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"Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation—experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way."
- Paul Theroux
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"We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly."
- Anna Thomas
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“The kitchen is a sacred space.”
- Marc Forgione
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"Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet: the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!"
- Rachael Ray
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"Good food and a warm kitchen is what makes a house a home."
- Rachael Ray
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"It’s a food of love thing, baby."
- Emeril Lagasse