Quotes

• “No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.” Laurie Colwin
• “It’s amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can’t go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.” Adam Scott
• “We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.” Adelle Davis
• “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” Calvin Trillin
• “He who comes first, eats first.” Eike von Repkow
• “Good food ends with good talk.” Geoffrey Neighor
• “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.” Julia Child
• “It’s the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.” Kirby Larson
• “As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices:  take it or leave it.” Buddy Hackett
• “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” Josh Billings
• “We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…” Epicurus