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"French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way."
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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."
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"French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way."
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"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."
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"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight."
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"The best meals are those prepared by loving hands."
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"I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression."
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"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession."
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"I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking."
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"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."
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"I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking."
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"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."
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"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."
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"The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms."
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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
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"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."
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"Today it [high fructose corn syrup] is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year. (A bushel of corn yields 33 pounds of fructose)"
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"This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."
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"French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way."
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"It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to cows seem like a sensible thing to do, until scientists figured out that this practice was spreading BSE [mad cow disease]."
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"A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals."
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