The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat.
Cooks - Cooking Quotes
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.
At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
In China it’s taken as a compliment if the tablecloth immediately surrounding your place is, by the end of a meal, a site of major spillage: ill-aimed rice, gouts of soy sauce, twigs from your bird’s-nest-soup, or whatever. At least, this is what I was once told by a courteous Chinese guide, who might just […]
Everybody loves a backyard barbecue. For some reason, food just seems to taste better when it has been cooked outdoors, where flies can lay eggs on it.
I don’t like gourmet cooking or “this” cooking or “that” cooking. I like _good_ cooking.
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
I believe that if I ever had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there was enough tarragon around.
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.
