Favorite Quotes

1. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well - Virginia Woolf
2. Good food ends with good talk - Geoffrey Neighor
3. I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with variation -Madam Banoit
4. One of the delights of life is eating with friends, second to that is talking about eating. And for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while your eating with friends - Laurie Colwin
5. Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all - Harriet van Home
6. One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing & devote our attention to eating - Luciano Pavarotti & William Wright
7. Food & wine & friendship matter more than almost anything I can think of. Together they involve skill & craft & patience, & understanding of differance, & appreciation, & the desire to bring happiness to others - Stephanie Alexander