"As the child's dominance over food increases, the food controls his activities more and more from within. Once the foods taken within the digestive tract, it stimulates a tremendous number of nerve channels within the body and brain. These nerve excitations result in shifting the blood supply from the outside of the body to the stomach and the inside organs. Of course, all this is a provision of nature for the adequate disposition of the food."

"Le véritable Amphitryon Est l'Amphitryon où l'on dine."

"They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy."

"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 cannot live without cooks. He may live without books,—what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,—what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,—what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?"

"O hour, of all hours, the most bless'd upon earth, The blessèd hour of our dinners!"

"Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth."

"A Padmini is used to eating very little, Chitarini consumes twice that quantity, Hastini three times and Sankhini eats an enormous amount of food."

"Some say eat, or be eaten."

"Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing."

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

"Very astonishing indeed! strange thing!" (Turning the Dumpling round, rejoined the King), "'Tis most extraordinary, then, all this is; It beats Penetti's conjuring all to pieces; Strange I should never of a Dumpling dream! But, Goody, tell me where, where, where's the Seam?" "Sire, there's no Seam," quoth she; "I never knew That folks did Apple-Dumplings sew." "No!" cried the staring Monarch with a grin; "How, how the devil got the Apple in?"

"This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is— A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse."

"Velocius (or citius) quam asparagi coquantur."

"Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, half-suspected, animate the whole."

"The waste of many good materials, the vexation that frequently attends such mismanagements, and the curses not unfrequently bestowed on cooks with the usual reflection, that whereas God sends good meat, the devil sends cooks."

"He ruleth all the roste With bragging and with boste."

"A crier of green sauce."

"I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast."

"The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg."

"Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses."

"Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of men; The dinner spoiled the temper of his Majesty, and then The Emperor made history—and no one blamed the cook."

"Poure faire un civet, prenez un lièvre."

"Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks."

"Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost."

"Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding."

"Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D— does cooks."

"Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach."

"Humans, unlike other animals, have a built-in need for supplemental energy, such as firewood, or fossil fuel energy. Over one million years ago, pre-humans figured out how to cook part of their food. Because of this cooked food, their jaws and digestive apparatus could shrink in size. The improved food supply allowed their brains to improve in complexity. Also, cooked food greatly reduced the time required for chewing, allowing more time for toolmaking and crafts. Heat is also important for killing pathogens in water."

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

"He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding: but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting: but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening: but here's yet in the word "hereafter" the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven and the baking: nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips."

"'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat. What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook? How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser, And serve it thus to me that love it not?"

"Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd by love, which no rancour disturbs And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife! But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone A man should sit down to dinner, each one Of the dishes of which the cook chooses to spoil With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil, The chances are ten against one, I must own, He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down."

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

"I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged."

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

"And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus, Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour."

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

"Cooking is revelation and creation; and a woman can find special satisfaction in a successful cake or a flaky pastry, for not every one can do it: one must have the gift."

"Within me I had a dearth of that inner food which is thyself, my God—although that dearth caused me no hunger. And I remained without any appetite for incorruptible food—not because I was already filled with it, but because the emptier I became the more I loathed it. Because of this my soul was unhealthy; and, full of sores, it exuded itself forth, itching to be scratched by scraping on the things of the senses."

"Oregano is the spice of life."

"The sweet mouth gathers sweet herbs."

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds: but, when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof."

"Mrs. Lovett: What's my secret, frankly dear forgive my candor, family secret all to do with herbs, things like being careful with your coriander, that's what makes the gravy grander."

"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows."

"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance."

"In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?"

"There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i. e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, which carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed."