“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.”

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

“And you can't go, "There's a hair in my Jell-O. I'd like to send this back. Can I see the cook, please?" The cook is a big dude named Bubba Joe.”

“There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.
Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?”

“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.”

“There's no such thing, like a female with good looks who cooks and cleans.”