Excerpt from Practical Cooking and Serving a Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food

"Certainly, " replied the orade, "study the art of pleasing by dress and manner as long as you are of an age to interest us, and, above all, let all women, pretty and plain, married and single, study the art of cookery. If you are an artist in the kitchen, you will always be esteemed. Only be careful, in studying both arts, never to forget the great truth that dinner precedes blandishments, and not blandishments dinner."

Elizabeth and Her German Garden

I regard the discovery of a dish a far more interesting event than the discovery of a star, for we have already stars enough, but we can never have too many dishes, and I shall not regard the sciences as sufficiently honored or adequately represented among us until I see a cook in the first class of the [French] Institute.

HotmiON de Penesey (o learned French judge).

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