“ Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Now alongside Scovell, John eased preserved peaches out of galliot pots of syrup and picked husked walnuts from puncheons of salt. He clarified butter and poured it into rye-paste coffins. From the Ma… Lawrence Norfolk
“ No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is Corky Pollan
“ Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out. Robin Wells
“ Who's cooking your food anyway? What strange beasts lurk behind the kitchen doors? You see the chef: he's the guy without the hat, with the clipboard under his arm, maybe his name stitched in Tuscan b… Anthony Bourdain
“ This book is about street-level cooking and its practitioners. Line cooks are the heroes. Anthony Bourdain
“ I'd burn the salad, suh. Us of the fatal beauty type are pretty awful cooks if y' ask me. - Dorothea Duckfontein Dillworthy Dotti Brian Jacques
“ Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket Dana Pollan
“ I still have my little red hardcover notebook—spine now held in place by packing tape, pages dotted with cooking stains—filled with her loving instructions for mandelbrot, nut cake, and strudel. Lori Pollan
“ Cooking is not a science but an art, mistakes are okay, messes are fine—the pleasure is in the creating and the sharing of the result. Lori Pollan
“ I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served it with bro… Tracy Pollan
“ But my favorite remained the basic roast chicken. What a deceptively simple dish. I had come to believe that one can judge the quality of a cook by his or her roast chicken. Above all, it should taste… Julia Child
