Primeval-man Quote by Joseph Conrad

Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man…

— Rose Macaulay

“That evening I was the sole guest in the huge dining room, and it was the same startled person who took my order and…

— W. G. Sebold

“Charred, blackened, and cooked, the morsel was brought to the mouth and chewed, contemplated, and swallowed with relish. There was no sauce or seasoning…

— Tony Federico

“imaginative cook, and her experiments weren’t always edible. I was surprised, and sad, that he seemed to remember that far back. “Steak and potatoes,”…

— Stephenie Meyer

“I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination…

— Robin Sloan

“Whachoo want, white boy? Burn cream? A Band-Aid? Then he raised his own enormous palms to me, brought them up real close so I…

— Anthony Bourdain

“We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.”

— Kate Wicker

“At the kneading trough in the bakehouse, he and Philip pummeled maslin dough until the dull-skinned clods stretched and sprang. A scowling Vanian showed…

— Lawrence Norfolk

“A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon.”

— James Hamilton-Paterson

“My particular memory is of a quail-pie. Quails may be alright for Moses in the desert, but, if they are served in the form…

— A.A. Milne

“Without another word, we began to eat. I was hungry, but no appetite would excuse the way we set upon those dishes. We shoveled…

— Eli Brown

“Cooks were the mitochondria of humanity; they had their own separate DNA, they floated in a cell and powered it but were not really…

— Jonathan Franzen