“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”
“Cooking is truly an act of love.”
“Cooking without wine is like sex alone. You may get the job done, but you don't really care once it's over.”
“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”
“He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a child is a real person, that a child's acts are real acts, that even a child's play is not without moral context.”
“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.”