“Like most humans, I am hungry...our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it...” -- Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher

"Like any pioneering child, you live in a one-room cabin, you are essentially raised in the kitchen." -- Rae Katherine Eighmey on Abraham Lincoln

"..when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.” -- Mark Twain

"The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it. ... If you're convinced that cooking is drudgery, you're never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen." -- James Beard

"Ham held the same rating as the basic black dress. If you had a ham in the meat house, any situation could be faced." -- Edna Lewis

"I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist." -- Alice Waters