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

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

Saki (1870–1916) British writer

“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

“There's only one secret to bachelor cooking — not caring how it tastes.”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

“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.”

Laurie Colwin (1944–1992) Novelist, short story writer, food writer

“Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

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

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

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

Harriet Van Horne (1920–1998) American journalist

“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”

James Beard (1903–1985) American chef

“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”

Julia Child (1921–2004) American chef