Craig Claiborne Quotes

#1. Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes.

Sirio Maccioni

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

Craig Claiborne

#3. The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

Robert Briffault

#4. They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.

Saint Basil

#5. God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

Yolanda Adams

#6. 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.

Craig Claiborne

#7. I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city.

Terry O'Quinn

#8. The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

Guy Ritchie

#9. Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.

Julius Nyerere

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

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

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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. he had never imagined she would leave him for messing around with girls he would never have married and didn't love.

Dorothy Allison

#17. It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I'd set up, no matter how many children I have got to take my mind off things. There was always going to be a moment when I finished playing, that I was going to find tough.

David Beckham

#18. The greatest thing a man can do for himself is to marry someone who is infinitely better than he is. And that's exactly what I did.

David Finch

#19. People care about our digital revenue, not our print revenue.

Dan Rosensweig

#20. Man is born to eat.

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#21. The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#22. 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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#23. 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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