"A crier of green sauce." — Francois Rabelais

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• Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
• Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication. — Maya Angelou
• Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but… — Thomas Jefferson
• A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I… — Mark Twain
• Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important. — George Ellwanger
• Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. — Andre Simon
• to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French… — Marie-Antoine Careme
• It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome… — Eliza Acton
• All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and… — Aldous Huxley
• The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. — William Penn
• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. — Fannie Farmer
• He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas… — Willa Cather

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