You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains.

— Anonymous

“Values are like Jell-O. They take time to set.”

— Karla Brandenburg

Tiffany is wrestling in Jell-O.

— Mojo Nixon

“Sarcasm is like Jell-O. It’s always the right time and there’s always room.”

— Susan Mallery

“Coffee wasn’t Jell-O’s only misstep: Cola-flavored Jell-O was sold for about a year starting in 1942, and for a brief while, the clear, wiggly…

— Will Pearson

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

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

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