I have no formal culinary training, right.

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