Christopher Kimball quotes

“I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party.”
-- Christopher Kimball

Source : "Cooking Isn’t Creative, and It Isn’t Easy". Interview with Alex Halberstadt, www.nytimes.com. October 11, 2012.

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“Cooking is about putting food on the table night after night, and there isn’t anything glamorous about it.”
-- Christopher Kimball

Source : "‘Cooking Isn’t Creative, and It Isn’t Easy’". www.nytimes.com. October 11, 2012.

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“There’s something about pleasure I find annoying.”
-- Christopher Kimball

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“Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when you are discouraged, dig a hole in the earth and think of the possibilities. So many things can be planted in your lifetime, skills that once mastered will bear fruit forever. . . . Pluck up some enthusiasm for the business of life, for the loamy matter that supports us all. Become a handyman and spread your skills wide, digging deeper into the earth's crust to uncover its secrets.”
-- Christopher Kimball

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“We must lose what we think we know so that we can come to see what we least expect.”
-- Christopher Kimball

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“Google 'broccoli casserole' and make the first recipe you find. I guarantee it will be disappointing.”
-- Christopher Kimball

Source : "Who Killed Gourmet Magazine?" by Craig "Meathead” Goldwyn, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2009.

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“There’s something about pleasure I find annoying.”
-- Christopher Kimball

#Annoying Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.”

“I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.”

“I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.”

“I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.”

“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”

“The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.7, Courier Corporation

“There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.”

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”

“I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson”