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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
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.
Cook me no cooks.
— Felix Benguiat, Ugly Hilda (1909), p. 515.
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
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 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.
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"
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."
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)
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.
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.
"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.
A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kick-shaws, tell William Cook.
— Shallow, scene i
