A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.
Cooking done with care is an act of love.
Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?
I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.
Food that's beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn't.
It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.
There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.
The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.
Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.
Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.
Sometimes while you're cooking it's messy but the outcome is good. The end result is all that counts.
Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.
That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.
But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.
