Contact
Privacy
Category: kitchen
Quotes of Category: kitchen
TOP TAGS :mind-your-own-businessfaustianprivilegesuffocateproverbsthink-for-yourselfvideoproportion

  1. Michael Pollan _ Cooked: A Natural History of

    For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us... If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.
    book-quotecookinghomeenvironmentalism

  2. Michael Pollan _ Cooked: A Natural History of

    If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.
    book-quotefoodhomeenvironment

  3. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie's mother looked around and made a face as if to indicate that it did not meet her standards of hygiene, containing as it did, edible foodstuffs. "Coffee? Water?" Don't say wax fruit. "Wax fruit?" Damn.
    book-quotemotherkitchenrosie

  4. Anthony Bourdain _ Kitchen Confidential:

    To want to own a restaurant can be a strange and terrible affliction. What causes such a destructive urge in so many otherwise sensible people? Why would anyone who has worked hard, saved money, often been successful in other fields, want to pump their hard-earned cash down a hole that statistically, at least, will almost surely prove dry? Why venture into an industry with enormous fixed expenses {...}, with a notoriously transient and unstable workforce, and highly perishable inventory of assets? The chances of ever seeing a return on your investment are about one in five. What insidious spongi-form bacteria so riddles the brains of men and women that they stand there on the tracks, watching the lights of the oncoming locomotive, knowing full well it will eventually run over them? After all these years in the business, I still don't know.
    book-quotecookingrestaurantkitchen

  5. Anthony Bourdain _ Kitchen Confidential:

    What most people don't get about professional-level cooking is that it is not all about the best recipe, the most innovative presentation, the most creative marriage of ingredients, flavours and textures; that, presumably, was all arranged long before you sat down to dinner. Line cooking - the real business of preparing the food you eat - is more about consistency, about mindless, unvarying repetition, the same series of tasks performed over and over and over again in exactly the same way.
    book-quotefoodcookingkitchen

  6. Anthony Bourdain _ Kitchen Confidential:

    This book is about street-level cooking and its practitioners. Line cooks are the heroes.
    book-quotefoodcookingcooks

  7. Anthony Bourdain _ Kitchen Confidential:

    As an art form, cooktalk is, like haiku or kabuki, defined by established rules, with a rigid, traditional framework in which one may operate.
    book-quotecookingrestaurantkitchen

  8. Anthony Bourdain _ Kitchen Confidential:

    There has ling been a happy symbiotic relationship between kitchen and bar. Simply put, the kitchen wants booze, and the bartender wants food.
    book-quoterelationshipfoodcooking

  9. Anthony Bourdain _ Kitchen Confidential:

    Who's cooking your food anyway? What strange beasts lurk behind the kitchen doors? You see the chef: he's the guy without the hat, with the clipboard under his arm, maybe his name stitched in Tuscan blue on his starched white chef's coat next to those cotton Chinese buttons. But who's actually cooking your food? Are they young, ambitious culinary school grads, putting in their time on the line until they get their shot at the Big Job? Probably not. If the chef is anything like me, the cooks are a dysfunctional, mercenary lot, fringe-dwellers motivated by money, the peculiar lifestyle of cooking and grim pride. They're probably not even American.
    book-quotefoodcookingcooks

  10. Rebecca McNutt _ Super 8: The Sequel to Smog

    I think we ought to find something else to do," said Mandy. "But Alecto my love, you're the first person to notice my retro diner kitchen. When my parents saw it, they thought I was creating a weird art project.""I like it. It's got that let's-drown-ourselves-in-better-days type ambiance," Alecto declared, his gray eyes narrowed.
    book-quotelovefunnyparents

  11. Stephen Clarke _ A Year in the Merde

    I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers' boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels {while bouncing cannonballs} back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns {bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos} to the TV. Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school." {p.137}
    book-quotefamilykidsneighbors
Categories