Laughter is brightest where food is best.
~Irish Proverb

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
~Craig Claiborne

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living
~Dione Lucas

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
~Julia Child

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.
~Robert Farrar Capon

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

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.
~Pearl Bailey