Craig Claiborne Quotes

#1. Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

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#2. I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

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#3. Man is born to eat.

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#4. 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 the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

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#5. 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 a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.

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#6. Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

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#7. Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

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#8. Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

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#9. He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

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#10. There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

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#11. Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.

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