“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
–George Bernard Shaw
“There’s nothing sexier than a poached pear with a perfect sorbet.”
–Lisa Hershey/ The Art of the Plated Dessert
“I may not be healthy or wealthy or wise;
I may not have dreamy, mysterious eyes;
I may not wear clothes from a French fashion book;
But I’m never lonely, for boy, I can cook!”
–Anonymous
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
–Harriet Van Horne
“Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas…”
–Jean Brillat-Savarin/ The Physiology of Taste
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
–Virginia Woolf
“Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food—not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother’s milk singing to your bloodstream.”
–Dorothy Allison
“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
–Lucy Van Pelt/ Peanuts Comic Strip
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