"It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain."

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Source : Eliza Acton (1865). “Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...”, p.8

Eliza Acton

#Ignorant Quotes #Meals Quotes #May Quotes

“In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.”
“The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.”

Source : Interview with William Dowell, content.time.com. May 10, 1999.
“As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.”

Source : "Dana Snyder and Dave Willis on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's limitless potential". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2009.
“I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As people do a task, they improve at it.”
“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.”

Source : Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.200, Hachette UK
“I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.”

Source : "Their Time Is Now". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2014.
“The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!”

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