"There are as many attitudes to cooking as……" — Adam Gopnik
"There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores."
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44 Quotes by Adam Gopnik
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