Cooking is not a mystery.

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

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

— Marcel Boulestin

Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

— Florence Fabricant

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

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

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

Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!

— Dylan Jones

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

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

I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

— Paul O'Grady

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

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

— Tom Jones

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

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring,…

— Dorothy Allison