Cooking is like love.

It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

-Harriet Van Horne


Strange to see how a good dinner
and feasting reconciles everybody.
-Samuel Pepys


The discovery of a new dish
does more for the happiness of mankind
than the discovery of a star.
-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


One cannot think well, love well, sleep well,
if one has not dined well.
-Virgina Woolf


A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods.
He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate,
from the palate to the finger's end.
-Walter Savage Landor


We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Hunger finds no fault with the cooking.
-Proverb


A good meal makes a man feel
more charitable toward the world than any sermon.
-Arthur Pendenys


I feel a recipe is only a theme,
which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
-Madam Benoit


Kissing don't last: cookery do.
-George Meredith


Cheese- milk's leap towards immortality.
-Clifton Fadiman


There is no such thing as a little garlic.
-unknown


There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.
-French Proverb


A smiling face is half the meal.
-Latvian Proverb