Laurie Colwin (1944–1992) Novelist, short story writer, food writer
“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.”
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“Bill, why is it that some apparently-grown men never learn to do simple arithmetic?”
Robert A. Heinlein book Farmer in the Sky
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“One would not die from my cooking, but I am not sure one would survive my driving.”
Margrethe II of Denmark (1940) Queen of Denmark
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Nigel Slater (1958) English food writer, journalist and broadcaster
The Real Cook - Writers and critics - Celebrities and articles - Food - Waitrose.com http://www.waitrose.com/food_drink/wfi/foodpeople/writersandcritics/9810064.asp
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
“There's only one secret to bachelor cooking — not caring how it tastes.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist
The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)
“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.”
Saki (1870–1916) British writer
"Reginald on Besetting Sins"
Reginald (1904)