Quotes and Sayings About Recipes
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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
-- Alan Bennett -
Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.
-- Alton Brown -
A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.
-- Alton Brown -
I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.
-- Andree Putman -
My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.
-- Ann Landers -
I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
-- Anna Chancellor -
I bought an organic rice milk. Frozen.....I'm not going to make something I don't know how to make, I don't have a recipe for.
-- Art Smith -
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
-- Arthur Helps -
You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.
-- Atul Gawande -
There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.
-- Barack Obama -
The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.
-- Bernie Worrell -
There will never be another woman who owns the look, the personality, and the experience that you do. Those ingredients make up the recipe that defines who you are, and it's your gift from the Lord - own it.
-- Candace Cameron -
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
-- Carl Jung -
Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.
-- David Brooks -
We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.
-- David Vitter -
Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success
-- Debbie Moore -
This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine.
-- Diana Kennedy -
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
-- Don Roff -
Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show.
-- Drew Barrymore -
Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!
-- Dylan Jones -
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
-- Eartha Kitt -
I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
-- Edie Brickell -
Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.
-- Eli Wallach -
I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.
-- Elizabeth David -
I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?
-- Emeril Lagasse