Sweet Cooking Quotes

#1. Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.

Isabel Gillies

#2. I've decided," he said, now focusing on the other breast, "that tomorrow is a no-clothes day. From now on, every Sunday is Stripper Sunday. The only thing you can wear are stilettos.

Lisa Edward

#3. As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#4. Each of us has a gift, a talent, that we can offer to the world that makes the world essentially a better place.

James Redfield

#5. Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song

Billy Rose

#6. There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health.

Patty Murray

#7. Inside, cooking smells maneuvered through the house: cow liver, sweet potatoes, stewed onions, cabbage - scents that were as assertive as colors.

Ron Hansen

#8. Somewhere along the way." Adam said, "I stopped cooking for anyone other than you. When you were gone, it was like all the flavor had drained out of the world. Without you, nothing tastes as sweet.

Louisa Edwards

#9. A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

Jesse Jackson

#10. Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

Gail Simmons

#11. Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#12. Catherine [of Siena] sent the Pope five oranges which she had candied and covered with gold leaf ... She develops the theme of the difference between the bitter and the sweet pain, and gives the Pope a recipe for making candied oranges.

Sigrid Undset

#13. Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

Thomas Carlyle

#14. I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.

Chandra Wilson

#15. It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

Justin Townes Earle

#16. I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.

Cameron Monaghan

#17. All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

Kenneth Clark

#18. Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

Cynthia Rylant