You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.
Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!
A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.
Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.
May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.
Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.
If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.
It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.