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My wife is an unbelievable Cook (exclamation point, exclamation point). People need to know. Unbelievable.
Tyler Joseph— Pianist for TOP, posted on Twitter December 29, 2015.
When you Cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.
raymond blanc— Daily Telegraph 2 October 2001
Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to Cook in when I was just little. And the door ain't sprung on her electric range. That little old farm and home we had, it ain't there no more and that's too bad. Folks are doing away with the simple things...
Dolly Parton— Old Black Kettle from the Tennessee Mountain Home album
Phone for the fish knives,Norman As Cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I must have things daintily served.
— 1954 A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'How To Get On In Society'.
He got used early to the adulation of a wide public and eventually decided that he could do without it; long before the end, fame had to chase him far harder than he chased it. But among his fellow practitioners his lustre was undimmed, unequalled. and unchallenged. ... Just as the astronauts riding up on their rockets all worshipped Chuck Yeager, the jet pilot who never joined them in space because he flew too well with wings, so the media millionaires all knew that Cook was the unsurpassable precursor who had done it all before they did, and done it better.
Peter Cook— Clive James, in an online tribute.
If a man marries his housekeeper or his Cook, the national dividend is diminished.
Arthur Cecil Pigou— 1920 Economics ofWelfare.
A good Cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Wolfgang Rudolph Schmitt— 1954 A Shocking Life, ch.21.
The Cook was a good Cook, as cooks go; and as good cooks go, she went.
— 1904 Reginald,'Reginald on Besetting Sins'.
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not Cook a clean soup."
Ludwig van Beethoven— To Mme. Streicher, in 1817, or 1818, after having dismissed an otherwise good housekeeper because she had told a falsehood to spare his feelings. in Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst
Whenever you wash dishes, Cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.
michio kushi— p. 4 (Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994, with Edward Esko))
I love to Cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it’s really my relaxation.
ali larter— Guinness, Rebecca (2009-04-24). "Obsessed with Cooking, M.J., and Being a Manny". Vanity Fair. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I Cook what I love to eat.
nigella lawson— As quoted in "British sensation Lawson says cooking should be about fun, family" by Beth Cooney in Oakland Tribune (4 June 2003)
"What, no more? Tell the Cook we require ten more courses."
ma fuxiang— Upton Close (2007). In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China. READ BOOKS. p. 272. ISBN 1-4067-1675-8. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
"Tell the Cook, that we will either have ten more courses or the crows will have him."
ma fuxiang— Upton Close (2007). In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China. READ BOOKS. p. 272. ISBN 1-4067-1675-8. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
"A sack," Baudolino explained, like a man who knows a trade well, "is like a grape harvest: you have to divide the tasks. There are those who press the grapes, those who carry off the must in the tuns, those who Cook for others, others who go to fetch the good wine from last year.... a sack is a serious job,"
Umberto Eco— Chapter 2, "Baudolino meets Niketas Choniates"
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese Cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.
graham greene— From journal kept while writing A Burnt-Out Case (1959)
How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the Cook deals with meat and vegetables.
Eric Hoffer— Entry (1954)
Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's Cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.
Franz Kafka— First lines, Ch. 1Variant translation: Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
We know that an unskilled labourer or a Cook cannot immediately get on with the job of state administration.
— Will the Bolsheviks Retain Government Power? (1917); this is often misquoted as "every cook must learn to govern the state" or even "every cook can govern the state."
His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands Cook.
Charles Churchill— Charles Churchill, Gotham III, line 133.
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my Cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a Cook flogged.
Martial— Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book VIII, Epistle 23.
A Cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIV, Epistle 220.
Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd by love, which no rancour disturbs And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife! But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone A man should sit down to dinner, each one Of the dishes of which the Cook chooses to spoil With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil, The chances are ten against one, I must own, He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.
Owen Meredith— Lucile (1860), Part I, Canto II, Stanza 27.
Would the Cook were of my mind!
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act I, scene 3, line 74.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, Cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert A. Heinlein, in Time Enough for Love, 1973; cited in: QFinance, the ultimate resource London: Bloomsbury. 2009. p. 1760.
The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the Cook forsake.
john dryden— John Dryden, Sixth Satire of Juvenal, line 762.
"What, no more? Tell the Cook we require ten more courses."
— Upton Close (2007). In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China. READ BOOKS. p. 272. ISBN 1-4067-1675-8. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
"Tell the Cook, that we will either have ten more courses or the crows will have him."
— Upton Close (2007). In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China. READ BOOKS. p. 272. ISBN 1-4067-1675-8. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
“The planet will continue to Cook.”
paul krugman— Paul Krugman, Awake! magazine November 2011, page 13.
