COOKS AND COOKING

Related Subjects: Dining, Eating, Feast, Food

1. Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

2. The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.—FENELON, Telemachus
   

3. "A cook should be able to rule Russia. That's what Lenin said. He meant that government should be so simple that any member of the country should be able to take over if needed."
   
   "But who would do the cooking."
   
   "Ah, Jayshus ! What's the use of explaining things to the likes of you ?"—O. St. J. GOGARTY, As I Was Going Down Sackville St.
   

4. He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.—MOLIERE, Le Misanthrope
   

5. The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.—WILLIAM PENN, Fruits of Solitude
   

6. The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.—H. H. MUNRO, Reginald

7. He is a sairy cook that mauna lick his ain fingers.—Proverb
   

8. Boil stones in butter, and you may sip the broth.—Proverb
   

9. God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.—Proverb
   

10. As testy as an old cook.—Proverb
    

11. But, first
    Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
    Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar
    Grew fat with feasting there.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony & Cleopatra

12. A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV