Hazan Quotes

#1. 'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

Alton Brown

#2. Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.

Jerry Leiber

#3. It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

John Pilger

#4. Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

Rick Warren

#5. The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

Marcella Hazan

#6. I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively,

Michael Jackson

#7. Our inner selves go on without us sometimes, trusting we'll catch on eventually. Sometimes it's too late when we do - too late to let the other person know what we've learned.

Meredith Marple

#8. The boy who was taken," she said. "Is he your son?"
"How old do you think I am, Dweller?"
"I'm a little shaky on the fossil record, but I'd say fifty to sixty thousand years."
"Eighteen. And no. He's not my son.

Veronica Rossi

#9. Once the pasta is sauced, serve it promptly, inviting your guests and family to put off talking and start eating.

Marcella Hazan

#10. The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

James Madison

#11. I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

Mary Alice Monroe

#12. I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.

Marcella Hazan

#13. Despite whatever the left may say, or even believe, about their concern for the poor, their actual behavior shows their interest in the poor to be greatest when the poor can be used as a focus of the left's denunciations of society.

Thomas Sowell

#14. Music makes absolutely no sense at all. Perhaps that is the point.

Lance Conrad

#15. Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

Beau Bridges

#16. Only whack jobs apply for the night shift

Rainbow Rowell

#17. I've learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach.

Lance Armstrong

#18. Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

Marcella Hazan

#19. A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

Justine Larbalestier

#20. [On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

Marcella Hazan

#21. In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.

Marcella Hazan

#22. Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

Marcella Hazan

#23. Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect. If we strive to become, then, what we strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties.

Sydney Smith

#24. I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.

Marcella Hazan

#25. What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

Marcella Hazan

#26. Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

Marcella Hazan