Marcella 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. The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.

Charles Eisenstein

#3. The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Lytton Strachey

#4. The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

James K. Polk

#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. She knew God was going to do whatever he wanted to do, regardless of anyone's pleading.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

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

Marcella Hazan

#8. 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

#9. There were questions one asked, and questions one did not. That was strong custom. And friendship.

Robert Jordan

#10. 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

#11. I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'

Wendy Cope

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

Marcella Hazan

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Marcella Hazan

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

Marcella Hazan

#17. Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

Philip Carr-Gomm

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

Marcella Hazan