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"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."
"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."
"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
"A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place."
Explore more quotes by Martin Yan
"You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good."
"A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion."
"The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined."
"I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed."
"The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united."
"Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful."
"I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day."
"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
"So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out."
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