The Best Cook in the World Quotes

“I think it may be fine to live in the past if that is where your people have all disappeared to - if that is a place where things still make some kind of sense to you.”
― Rick Bragg, The Best Cook in the World

“The past is where we go when we are helpless; the past, no matter what the psychiatrists say, can’t really hurt you much more than it already has, not like the future, which comes at you like a train around a blind curve.”
― Rick Bragg, The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Southern Table

“She can tell if her cornbread is done, and all the rest, by their aromas alone—that, or the angels mumble it straight into her ear. It’s not the clock that tells you when it’s done; the food does.”
― Rick Bragg, The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Southern Table

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― Rick Bragg, The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Southern Table

“People, she believed, were for the large part leaping dumbasses.”
― Rick Bragg, The Best Cook in the World

“The past is where we go when we are helpless; the past, no matter what the psychiatrists say, can't really hurt you much more than it already has, not like the future, which comes at you like a train around a blind curve.”
― Rick Bragg, The Best Cook in the World