Samuel Johnson Quotes about Cooking

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
In William Roberts (ed.) 'Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs Hannah More' (1834) vol. 1, p. 251
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.163
Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.346, Canongate Books
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.125
Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.
"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".