QUOTES.

ON GARDENING.

"The great wonder in gardening is that so many plants live."  Christopher Lloyd

ON FOOD OR DRINK.

"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart." Cesar Chavez

Or: "If you really want to make a friend, invite them over to eat. Feed them and give them your heart." Me!

"It's not the minutes spent at the table that put on weight, it's the seconds." Anon

"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices - take it or leave it."  Buddy Hackett

Chocolate comes from cocoa which is a tree... that makes it a plant which means...chocolate is salad!

"A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand."  Barbara Johnson

"I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking".  James Beard

"Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."  W. C. Fields

"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."  Erma Bombeck

"Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place."  Kenneth Grahame

"The biggest seller is cook books and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you just learned how to cook."  Andy Rooney

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four... unless there were three other people."  Orson Welles

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." Doug Larson

JULIA CHILD QUOTES.

"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."

"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet."

"Cooking is like love; it should be entered into with abandon or not at all."