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Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.

Cat food. It stinks a bit, but if you don't put up with the smell, the little kitten will die.

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food is the work of others, the bounty of Nature and God's compassion. Even if we have millions of dollars, we still need food to satisfy our hunger. Can we eat dollars? Therefore, never eat anything without first praying with humility.

Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue.

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

Clam chowder is one of those subjects, like politics or religion, that can never be discussed lightly. Bring it up even incidentally, and all the innumerable factions of the clam bake regions raise their heads and begin to yammer.

Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done.

Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That's a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, 'If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better.'

Cooking is not about being the best or most perfect cook, but rather it is about sharing the table with family and friends.