Quotes on Cooking Love

If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.