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“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.”

Source: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

“Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.”

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Book:The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove

Source: The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove

“When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional.”

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Author:Paula Wolfert

“Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.”

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Book:In Darkest England and the Way Out

Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out

“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.”

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Book:A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories

Source: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories

“Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.”

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Book:Early American Cookery:

Source: Early American Cookery:

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

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Author:Robert A. Burton

“Kissing don't last: cookery do!”

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Author:George Meredith

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”

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Author:Craig Claiborne

“What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.”

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Author:Marcel Boulestin

“A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.”

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Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

“Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.”

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Author:George Ellwanger

“If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.”

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Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.”

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Book:The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...

Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...

“Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.”

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Book:Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

Source: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

“The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.”

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Author:George Ellwanger

“To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.”

“The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.”

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Author:Antonin Carême