After a perfect meal we are more susceptible to the ecstasy of love than at any other time. – Dr. Hans Bazli

Americans, more than any other culture, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family’s cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of Fannie Farmer or The Joy of Cooking. – John Thorne

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. – Nora Ephron