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Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes. Norman Douglas

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. Robert Burton

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. Benjamin Franklin

Kissing don't last: cookery do! George Meredith

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

The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love, for those you are cooking for. Sophia Loren

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. Julia Child

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. Julia Child

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. Julia Child

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. Julia Child

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class. Jeff Smith

Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute. Jeff Smith

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't understand. Jeff Smith

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one. Jeff Smith

When we decode a cookbook, every one of us is a practising chemist. Cooking is really the oldest, most basic application of physical and chemical forces to natural materials. Arthur E Grosser