Quotes about cooking

"Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!"

Carlyle, Thomas on cooking   

"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."

Cebrian, Katherine on cooking   

"If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong."

Jaine, Tom on cooking   

"I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right."

Marx, Groucho on cooking   

"Kissing don't last: cookery do!"

Meredith, George on cooking   

"To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a home might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation."

Post, Emily on cooking   

"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."

Shakespeare, William on cooking   

"To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar."

Wilde, Oscar on cooking   

"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."

Wolfe, Thomas on cooking
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"every recipe can be delicious if you put your heart in."

garrysandhu on cooking