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"I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants."

"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight."

"Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on."

"Jennifer Anne had prepared some complicated-looking recipe involving chicken breasts stuffed with sweet potatoes topped with a vegetable glaze. They looked perfect, but it was the kind of dish where you just knew someone had to have been pawing at your food for a long while to get it just right, their fingers all in what now you were having to stick in your mouth."

"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession."

"I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel."
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"I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large."

"Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables."

"I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys."

"Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent."

"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."

"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."

"Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful."

"Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back."
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