The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows. - A. A. Gill

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There are a lot of good looking men on this planet. It seems like once a week someone will tell me, "I know someone who looks like you" and I don't know what say to them except, "Tell them hi. "

A. A. Gill

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

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The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

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A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

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Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

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