“ There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves. ”
- Thomas Wolfe- Copy
- 369
“ I don't think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while. ”
- John Gould- Copy
- 1.3K
“ 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. ”
- Emily Post- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. ”
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison- Copy
- 3.3K
“ There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 2.4K
“ If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers. ”
- Linda Henley- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. ”
- Alexandre Auguste Ledru Rollin- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
- 3.3K
“ A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. ”
- James Beard- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ”
- Harriet van Horne- Copy
- 833
“ The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. ”
- Calvin Trillin- Copy
- 2K
“ I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. ”
- Geoffrey Rush- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. ”
- Andy Rooney- Copy
- 3.2K
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