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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
"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"
Cook me no cooks.
— Felix Benguiat, Ugly Hilda (1909), p. 515.
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.
The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, Cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget.
Alain de Botton— Swiss-born British author
Music with dinner is an insult both to the Cook and the violinist.
gilbert keith chesterton— Quoted in The New York Times (16 Nov 1967)
It's not the microwave that's the problem, it's what people put into them. I know people lead busy lives but they should try to sit their children down at the table once a week and Cook them simple food.
raymond blanc— Daily Telegraph 2 October 2001
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to Cook.
julia child— Indirect quote on The National (CBC TV), Aug. 13
I tell ya, my wife's a lousy Cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.
rodney dangerfield— It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drug (2004, p. 18)
"Man axalotl here below but I ask very little. Some fragments of Pamphylides, a Choctaw blood-mask, the prose of Scaliger the Elder, a painting by Fuseli, an occasional visit to the all-in wrestling, or to my meretrix; a Cook who can produce a passable 'poulet à la Khmer,' a Pong vase. Simple tastes, you will agree, and it is my simple habit to indulge them!"
cyril connolly— "Told in Gath"
Don't Cook that chicken - it still has feathers.
arthur m. jolly— Lubov, Act II, Scene 1
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
Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, Cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That’s why they don’t pay you for it.
joanna russ— Part 7, Chapter 1 (p. 137)
The Cook was a good Cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.
saki— "Reginald on Besetting Sins"
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — Cook books and detective stories.
rex stout— Rex Stout, page 3
It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a Cook.
Anton Chekhov— Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 2, 1894)
Every Cook must learn to rule the State.
— As quoted in Woman's Place by Florence Becker, in New International, Vol. 2 No. 5 (August 1935), pp.175-176; also in Woman in Soviet Russia (1935) by Fannina W. Halle
It will be a strange sort of book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree; & to Cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy, which from the nature of the thing, must be ungainly as the gambols of the whales themselves. Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of this.
Herman Melville— On Moby-Dick, in a letter to Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1 May 1850)
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet Cook.
George Meredith— Prelude (The Egoist (1879))
I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, Cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.
vladimir nabokov— p. 18 (Strong Opinions (1973))
British women can't Cook.
duke of edinburgh philip— Statement of 1966, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes" BBC News (1 March 2002)
Would the Cook were of my mind!
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act I, scene 3, line 74.
Where's the Cook? is supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept?
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act IV, scene 1, line 47.
'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat. What dogs are these! Where is the rascal Cook? How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser, And serve it thus to me that love it not?
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act IV, scene 1, line 164.
Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His Cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of men; The dinner spoiled the temper of his Majesty, and then The Emperor made history and no one blamed the Cook.
F. J. MacBeath— Cause and Effect. In Smart Set, Volume I. No. 4.
"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— Umberto Eco, Baudolino (2000), Chapter 2, "Baudolino meets Niketas Choniates".
A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kick-shaws, tell William Cook.
— Shallow, scene i
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion , butcher a hog, cone 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, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, Cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
— Robert A. Heinlein, in Quotes about Humankind, p.11
