“ We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking. Alice Waters Chef
“ Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes. Alton Brown Television Personality
“ EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.' Ambrose Bierce Journalist
“ I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life. Anne Truitt Artist
“ To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Anthony Bourdain Chef
“ I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal. April Bloomfield Chef