Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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.
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
People who love to eat are always the best people.
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
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