“Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.”

— Barbara Kingsolver, book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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American author, poet and essayist 1955

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