Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form.

One of the jobs I had was cutting out the blood clots on a side of beef.

I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.

I know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically.

My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher.

I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.

I was aware of what animals go through because I had driven animals to slaughter and I'd killed animals. And I was aware that there were certain ethical issues, but they weren't preying on my mind very heavily.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.

If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.

I like to roast things from the inside out. I like to know what's going on.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!