Without love, life is nothing but work and sleep.

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the…

— Benjamin Franklin

Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two…

— Craig Claiborne

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

— Mark Twain

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah,…

— Emeril Lagasse

Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!

— Dylan Jones

There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New…

— Gael Greene

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities…

— Emmanuel des Essarts

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

— Florence Fabricant

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

— Marcel Boulestin

There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I…

— Peg Bracken

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

— Tom Jones

I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think…

— Steven Wright