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“Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.”
William Least Heat Moon (William Trogdon) ‘Blue Highways’ (1982)

"Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"If the skill of the artist had failed, if he had served some ill-prepared dish, the cook was put in irons on the spot, or else was led to the triclinium (dining-room) by two henchmen and severely flogged in the presence of the guests."
C. Dezobry, ‘Rome au siecle d'Auguste’

"Too many cooks may spoil the broth, but it only takes one to burn it."
Madeleine Bingham, ‘The Bad Cook's Guide’

"She did not so much cook as assassinate food."
Storm Jameson (1891-1986)