The Competent Cook's Quotables

About author / Lauren Braun Costello

The competent cook; food stylist; cooking instructor; graduate French Culinary Institute. To die for dish? Maple glazed bacon wrapped roast turkey. Yep, bacon wrapped.

The other day I was talking to a woman who was shocked that I happily give away recipes. "If I could cook like you, I would never give away my secrets," she declared. Well, I must say that I thoroughly disagree with this attitude. Sharing recipes is like storytelling, traveling and reading a book all in one shot. It is a way to give and receive something special and new. This is probably the very reason why you visit CDKitchen.

It has been said that sharing a recipe makes it immortal. So many of us make Grandma's apple pie, or our mother's roast chicken. This is what makes a recipe live on, long after the life of the person who first shared it with us. The following quote expresses this sentiment best:

The recipe that is not shared with others will soon be forgotten,
but when it is shared, it will be enjoyed by future generations.
--Unknown

So many of my favorite food quotes express my food philosophy better than I can state it myself. I believe the following words of wisdom are meant to be shared with all Competent Cooks.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
--James Beard

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.
--Erma Bombeck

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with
abandon or not at all.
--Harriet Van Horne

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness
of the human race than the discovery of a star.
--Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
--Owen Meredith

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
--Miguel de Cervantes

No man in the world has more courage than the man
who can stop after eating one peanut.
--Channing Pollack

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
--George Bernard Shaw

Do you have a fun food quote you would like to share? Please post it below!