HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging..

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili..

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue..

Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it..

My interest in food really began with a months cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not an incredible cook, alas, ….

The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you co….

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans..

...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems..

Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate..

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers..

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill..

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely..

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

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite..

While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating..

I love cooking and spending time in mine..

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the gr….

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways..

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being..

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken..

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil….