9 quotes about Cooking

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

— Carlyle, Thomas

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.

— Cebrian, Katherine

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

— Jaine, Tom

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

— Marx, Groucho

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

— Meredith, George

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a home might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

— Post, Emily

'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

— Shakespeare, William

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

— Wilde, Oscar

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

— Wolfe, Thomas