cooking

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gathering, nor social harmony.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.

Too many cooks may spoil the broth, but it only takes one to burn it.

The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.