Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
Cooks - Cooking Quotes
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man can not live without cooks. He may live without books, – what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope – what is hope […]
I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say towards the kitchen.
I don’t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
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 […]
There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends, for its rightness upon some little point, which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope; of painting a surface of wood; of mixing mortar; of almost anything you like […]
What I never understood to this day, to this very day, was how white people could have black people cook for them, make their meals, but wouldn’t let them sit at the table with them,” he said. “How can you dislike someone so much and have them cook for you? Shoot, if I don’t like […]
Kissing don’t last: cookery do!
There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won’t, and that’s a spouse who can’t cook and will.
