"The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of itâ€¦ If youâ€™re convinced that cooking is drudgery, youâ€™re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen."

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Source : James Beard, Amy Pastan, Peter Pastan (1986). “James Beard's theory & practice of good cooking in large print”, G K Hall & Co

James Beard

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“Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.”
“I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.”
“You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.”
“Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.”
“I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.”
“A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself”
“Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."”
“In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.”

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