Erica Jong Quotes
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I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.
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My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.
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I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.
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And you can't go, 'There's a hair in my Jell-O. I'd like to send this back. Can I see the cook, please?' The cook is a big dude named Bubba Joe.
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When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.
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Come cook food with me and do nothing.
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My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.
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We used to grind our own wheat and cook rabbits and kangaroos.
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The planet will continue to cook.
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The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.
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[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.
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I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.
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The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you.
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I don't cook. I respect food too much.
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I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
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Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
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There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!
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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
