“… Ivy’s COOK THE STEAK, DON’T STAKE THE COOK apron…”

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”

“Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.”

“Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron."”

“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.”

“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”

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

“Bucky: "The last time I cooked you complained."
Rob: "Setting a bologna sandwitch on fire is not 'cooking'."”

“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.”

“Obviously, I am the cook. The cook is the director. He arranges the menu, the seating order of the guests; he gives refuge to the lovers; he prepares the repast of the lover's body. The cook is a perfectionist and a rationalist, a portrait of myself.”