Bee Wilson Quotes

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

Choose recipes like a base recipe; make a big pot of soup and freeze it. From then on, you can take it in any direction. Another day put rice in it, or then put corn or sausages. From there, it's endless.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

I want to be a well-rounded, versatile performer.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

I love experimenting; as a singer, one needs to be versatile.

I don't have any specialties. Anything I cook, I just make it special.

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

I think that's a really cool thing about my line. There are so many sets, but you can literally mix and match everything with everything.

When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

Specialization is for insects.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.