“… no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.”

“I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers.
One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.”

“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 revelation and creation; and a woman can find special satisfaction in a successful cake or a flaky pastry, for not every one can do it: one must have the gift.”

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

“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.”

“I didn't expect you to have learnt to smile yet. When one is born, one only knows how to cry. It's only very gradually that one learns to smile.”

“Every cook must learn to rule the State.”

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”

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