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  • #1
    Cassandra Clare
    “If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat," Jace muttered.

    Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. "What did you say?"

    Jace edged toward the fridge. "I said I'm going to look for a snack to eat."

    That's what I thought you said." Isabelle turned her attention to the soup.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #2
    W.C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #3
    John Green
    “Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #4
    Laurie Colwin
    “No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
    Laurie Colwin

  • #5
    Thomas Wolfe
    “There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”
    Thomas Wolfe

  • #6
    Craig Claiborne
    “Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”
    Craig Claiborne

  • #7
    Julia Child
    “Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.”
    Julia Child

  • #8
    Rita Rudner
    “I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen”
    Rita Rudner

  • #9
    Julia Child
    “Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes.”
    Julia Child, My Life in France

  • #10
    Truman Capote
    “Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.”
    Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

  • #11
    Paul Theroux
    “Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way”
    Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

  • #12
    M.F.K. Fisher
    “There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”
    M.F.K. Fisher

  • #13
    Sonia Rumzi
    “I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.”
    Sonia Rumzi, Simple Conversation: A Novel

  • #14
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #15
    Orson Welles
    “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
    Orson Welles

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

  • #17
    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #18
    Erma Bombeck
    “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
    Erma Bombeck

  • #19
    George Bernard Shaw
    “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
    George Bernard Shaw, BBC Radio presents Man and superman

  • #20
    Julia Child
    “The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
    Julia Child

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Lora Brody
    “Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.
    Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.
    And it always feels good.”
    Lora Brody

  • #23
    A.A. Milne
    “What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #24
    Erma Bombeck
    “I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”
    Erma Bombeck

  • #25
    “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
    David Mamet, Boston Marriage

  • #26
    Julia Child
    “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
    Julia Child

  • #27
    Robert Frost
    “There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”
    Robert Frost

  • #28
    Charles de Gaulle
    “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
    Charles de Gaulle

  • #29
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird

  • #30
    Jo Brand
    “Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.”
    Jo Brand



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