Effort Quote by Peter S. Beagle

Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who…

— Michael Pollan

There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst…

— Edith Schaeffer

There is no such thing as the perfect meal; one can always do better.

— Joel Robuchon

You can eat interestingly without having to spend a lot of money, with a little bit of preparation.

— Ainsley Harriott

For those of us who are lucky enough to not worry about where our next meal is coming from, it can be difficult to…

— Melissa Leong

“In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it,…

— Andi Ashworth

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

— Ted Allen

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

— Tom Jaine

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

— M. F. K. Fisher

I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.

— Rufus Wainwright

Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it

— Michael Pollan

So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

— Auguste Escoffier