At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
– Robert Farrar Capon
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.
– Robert Farrar Capon
I talk marriage; they talk weddings!
– Robert Farrar Capon
Older women are like aging strudels-the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.
– Robert Farrar Capon
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.