Cook quotes

   Phone for the fish knives,Norman As Cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I must have things daintily served.

- SirJohn Betjeman
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'How To Get On In Society'.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And myambition has been growing steadily ever since.

- Salvador Dal| 
  The Secret Life of Salvador Dal|,  prologue.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as good cooks go, she went.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
  Reginald,'Reginald on Besetting Sins'.

'But why should you want to shield him?'cried Egbert; 'the man is a common murderer.' 'A common murderer, possibly, but a very uncommon cook.'

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
  Beasts and Super-Beasts,'The Blind Spot'.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

-Wolfgang Rudolph Schmitt
  A Shocking Life, ch.21.

   Illustrious Cook,Columbus of our shore, To whom was left this unknown world t'explore, Its untraced bounds on faithful chart to mark, And leave a light where all before was dark.

-William Charles Wentworth
  Australasia.