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Bar-be-que (bar*bi*q) n. You bought the groceries, washed the lettuce, chopped the tomatoes, diced the onions, marinated the meat and cleaned everything up, but, he, "made the dinner."

Better a crust of bread with love, than a whole loaf without.

Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

Can you taste the love in it?

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Cooking is a once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. --Craig Claiborne

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Cooking is like love... It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

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

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

Cooking Rule... If at first you don't succeed, order pizza

Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes?

Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.

Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie.

Dinner is ready when the smoke alarm goes off!

Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort.

Good cooks never lack friends.

Good moms let you lick the beaters...great moms turn them off first.

Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree.

I can't cook. I use a smoke alarm as a timer

I figured if I was going to make the world a better place, I'd do it with cookies.

I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

I was 32 when I started cooking, up until then I just ate.

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Many people have eaten my cooking & gone on to lead normal lives.

My favorite recipe... eat out!

never eat more than you can lift

No matter where I serve my guests, they seem to like my kitchen best.

Nothing says lovin' like something from the Oven.

Only the pure of heart can make good soup.

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

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

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

The torch of love is lit in the kitchen.

The way to a woman's heart is through the door of a good restaurant.

There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

There is no such thing as a little garlic.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

Things taste better in small houses.

This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.

Today's Menu: Take it or leave it!

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray.

When Fall arrives I want to bake bread and pies, the smell of it wafting through the air brings critters and kids from everywhere!

When life gives you chicken, make soup!

Worries go down better with soup.

“Cooking is an art and patience a virtue... Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist - not perhaps in the representational style of a Dutch master, but rather more like Gauguin, the naïve, or Van Gogh, the impressionist. Plates or pictures of sunshine taste of happiness and love." ~Keith Floyd

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