I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it's not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.
Let the ravioli simmer for the time it takes to say two Lord's Prayers.
I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy....Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.
I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.
if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.
Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!
I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - it's authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer.
I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.
If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
