"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

~ Jules Renard

“Dining with one’s friends and beloved family is certainly one of life’s primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.”

~ Julia Child

“Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the earth are not given adequate protection. As a result, economic imbalance is produced, and the inalienable rights and dignity of every human person are ignored.”

~ Pope Benedict XVI, Message to Mr. Jacques Diouf, Director General of FAO on the Occasion of World Food Day, October 15, 2010

“Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”

~ Harriet Van Horne (Vogue 10/1956 "Not for Jiffy Cooks”)

“Enchant, stay beautiful and graceful, but do this, eat well. Bring the same consideration to the preparation of your food as you devote to your appearance. Let your dinner be a poem, like your dress.”

~ Charles Pierre Monselet,French journalist