...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it…

Life itself is simple food, water, and a safe place to sleep. It's all the unnecessary things that complicate it.

— Tavia Harris

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

— Umberto Saba

“If you fall over, you fall over. If you have to stop, you stop. But you start again. Just like life itself, you start…

— Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa

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

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