Career Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Let a woman learn only a handful of basic finishes for her meat, and she will become a cook instead of a housewife. Butter…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“Since my earliest memory, I imagined I would be a chef one day. When other kids were watching Saturday morning cartoons or music videos…

— Elizabeth Acevedo

There have been a lot of memorable meals in my life and in my career.

— Frankie Avalon

I can cook a five-course meal.

— Rituparna Sengupta

“We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau,…

— Charles Dickens

“Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon the kitchen…

— Laura Shapiro

“It was a glorious supper. There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis—a celebrated Scotch dish, gentlemen, which…

— Charles Dickens

“Cooking was a passion and sometimes a serious art form, to be shared with a select few.”

— Isabel Vincent

“Cooking dinner is a sacred gateway from work to rest, from seven separate lives to one shared table.”

— Jen Hatmaker

I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.

— Michael Mina

“Apprentices have asked me, what is the most exalted peak of cuisine? Is it the freshest ingredients, the most complex flavors? Is it the…

— Liang Wei

My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do…

— Vincent Schiavelli