Craig Claiborne Quotes

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• When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying…
• There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.
• Cooking done with care is an act of love.
• Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.
• For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting…
• Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have…
• Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
• I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
• Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
• He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
• Man is born to eat.

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