"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…"

"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…"

"No one here will be surprised to hear me say that the Promethean fire which first raised humanity above the animal wa…"

"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,…"