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Cooking Quotes - Page 26

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.75

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.6021, BookCaps Study Guides

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

William Kitchiner, Luigi Cornaro (1847). “Directions for Invigorating and Prolonging Life; Or, The Invalid's Oracle ...”, p.173

I like being at home and cooking.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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".

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.125

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

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