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

"And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus, Things which in hungry mortal…"

"Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared."

"I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appea…"

"A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be."

"Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd by love, which no rancour disturbs And sweeten'd by all that …"

"'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat. What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook? How durst you, villains, bring it …"

"He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding: but yo…"

"God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks."

"Cooking is revelation and creation; and a woman can find special satisfaction in a successful cake or a flaky pastry,…"