“I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?”
“The recipe says 'stir until the dough holds together'. You'll have a better chance of finding the fountain of youth than stirring this batter.”
“I carried recipes in my head like maps.”
“I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said."Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!""It's from indigestion.”
“If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.”
“Uncertainty is one of government recipes.”