„[Ibn Battuta’s description of the preparation of samosa would make one’s mouth water even today:] “Minced meat cooked with almond, walnut, pistachios, onion and spices placed inside a thin bread and fried in ghee.”“

„Technically, one drop of water would cover the planet, if you spread it really thin.“

—  Kent Hovind American young Earth creationist 1953

Creation seminars (2003-2005)

„God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.“

—  Thomas Deloney English poet, novelist, and composer 1543 - 1600

Originally in A. Borde Dietary of Health xi. (1542 )
Used and popularised by Deloney in 1574. Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7PMZJqSR4sAC&pg=PA236&lpg=PA236&dq=god+sends+meat+deloney&source=bl&ots=ASloRAQyP1&sig=xQyq5EwO7MuEouEj2kHOFGMvuE8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UW_3UqP3DYGGhQfrnIGwBQ&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=god%20sends%20meat%20deloney&f=false

„1688. God sends Meat, and the Devil sends Cooks.“

—  Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : Bad Commentators spoil the best of books, So God sends meat (they say) the devil cooks.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

„God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.“

—  John Taylor English poet of the 16th and 17th centuries 1578 - 1653

„Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.“

—  Walter Scott Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771 - 1832

The Heart of Midlothian', Ch. 30 (1818).
Zdroj: The Heart of Mid-Lothian

„Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The "I" is the jar.“

—  Ramakrishna Indian mystic and religious preacher 1836 - 1886

p. 659

„No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.“

—  Laurie Colwin Novelist, short story writer, food writer 1944 - 1992

„Calvin: Why are you crying mom?
Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.
Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.“

—  Bill Watterson American comic artist 1958

Zdroj: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

„Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.“

—  Anatole France French writer 1844 - 1924

L'ignorance et l'erreur sont nécessaires à la vie comme le pain et l'eau.
Pierre Nozière http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Pierre_Nozi%C3%A8re_-_Livre_deuxi%C3%A8me._Notes_%C3%A9crites_par_Pierre_Noziere_en_marge_de_son_gros_Plutarque. (1899), book II: Notes écrites par Pierre Nozière en marge de son gros Plutarque

„They'll drop a cage into the water, and the shark'll be. like, "What you doin' down 'ere? What you fuckin' doin' down 'ere?" And they'll get a bit of meat on a stick and go "Oy! Wanker! Bleurgh!" And they’ll go "Oh, is that for me?" [pretends to shove meat in shark’s mouth] "You fuckin’…"“

—  Lee Evans English stand-up comedian and actor 1964

Live from the West End (1995)

„Obviously, I am the cook. The cook is the director. He arranges the menu, the seating order of the guests; he gives refuge to the lovers; he prepares the repast of the lover's body. The cook is a perfectionist and a rationalist, a portrait of myself.“

—  Peter Greenaway British film director 1942

In an interview in Die Zeit, 24 Nov 1989
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

„These reasons made his mouth to water.“

—  Samuel Butler (poet) poet and satirist 1612 - 1680

Canto III, line 379
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

„One would not die from my cooking, but I am not sure one would survive my driving.“

—  Margrethe II of Denmark Queen of Denmark 1940

From 'Om man så må sige – 350 Dronning Margrethe-citater', quoted in English here http://trondni.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/new-books-wit-and-wisdom-of-margrethe-ii.html.
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„I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.“

—  Robert Fulghum, kniha Všechno, co opravdu potřebuju znát, jsem se naučil v mateřské školce

Zdroj: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

„Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.“

—  Tom Robbins, kniha Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

„The richest soil that was ever prepared would not grow a single blade of grass or the tiniest Weed if that soil were absolutely dry. …There must be water in the soil to dissolve out and transfer its elements in order that the rootlets of the plant shall be able to make the slightest use of these elements. …But …a plant may grow and thrive for a time quite without the presence of soil if its roots are placed in water. … some of the richest soils in the world are those that are absolutely barren and fully merit the designation of desert lands because water is lacking“

—  Luther Burbank American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science 1849 - 1926

How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening

„Said the great Teacher, “If your son asks for bread, will you give him a stone?” The body calls for bread, for life-giving food, but how often we supply, instead, such indigestible, unwholesome rubbish as pickles, green olives, fried foods, and various abominable mixtures which bring into the body death rather than life. How often, too, the voice which calls for pure, life-giving water is insanely answered by such disease-producing drinks as beer, whisky, wine, tea, or coffee, and the like.“

—  John Harvey Kellogg American physician 1852 - 1943

Zdroj: The Living Temple, p. 58

„I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.“

—  Anthony Bourdain Chef and food writer 1956 - 2018

Kitchen Confidential (2000)

„Thrown into a dungeon,
Bread and water was my portion,
Faith - my only weapon,
To rest the devil's legion.
The speak-hole would slide open,
A viper's voice would pleade,
A voice think with innuendo,
Syphillis and greed.“

—  Nick Cave Australian musician 1957

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), Mercy