80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan. Marcella Hazan More Quotes by Marcella Hazan More Quotes From Marcella Hazan Cooking is an art, but you eat it too. Marcella Hazan cooking food art What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world. Marcella Hazan people world Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life. Marcella Hazan italian age art The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place. Marcella Hazan mother children fall I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor. Marcella Hazan flavor use heart I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping. Marcella Hazan smell cooking sound And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do. Marcella Hazan passion fire long In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce. Marcella Hazan kitchen italian long Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group. Marcella Hazan accomplishment home art [On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in. Marcella Hazan significant cooking
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