“ More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling i… Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The cooking was invigorating, joyous. For Julia, the cooking fulfilled the promises that Le Cordon Bleu had made but never kept. Where Le Cordon Bleu always remained rooted in the dogma of French cuis… Bob Spitz
“ We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best. Ryan Lilly
“ Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done or have fantasized about. love, deception, roman… Michael Stuckey
“ As she traveled down the lane between the rows of parked cars, she noticed a conspicuous absence of new or expensive vehicles. Teaching didn't pay well enough for any luxuries, and Hannah thought that… Joanne Fluke
“ No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is Corky Pollan
“ While Nicole drove off in search of recipes for fish hash, clam fritters, and salmon quiche, Charlotte settled in the Chowder House with Dorey Jewett, who, well beyond the assortment of chowders she a… Barbara Delinsky
“ Waking up Thursday morning to another dreary day and the sense of being physically stuffed, they focused on FISH. While Charlotte interviewed the postmaster about the origin, techniques, and ingredien… Barbara Delinsky
“ The sun light up a drop of dewThe drop of dew soon driesYou are the light of my eyes, my eyesI'm brought to life by you ... Laura Esquivel
“ I hate the notion of a secret recipe. Recipes are by nature derivative and meant to be shared - that is how they improve, are changed, how new ideas are formed. To stop a recipe in it's tracks, to lab… Molly Wizenberg
“ Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death. Héctor Abad Faciolince
“ [Y]ou can't control everything. Anything, really. Like the food we've been making. We can follow the recipe exactly as your grandmother wrote it, do everything exactly--or almost exactly--as she had,… Melissa Senate
“ 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
“ 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
