No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.

But since soup mainly involves tossing everything in a pot and waiting, it's one of my better dishes.

I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked."Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically."She burns.

She hadn’t known that the ability to make pancakes from scratch made a man brutally hot. Now she did.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

The restorative effect of a tasty dinner is quite remarkable. When the going gets tough, the tough get cooking.

Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

Zip it kiddo. Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you later in life.

Cooking without wine is like sex alone. You may get the job done, but you don't really care once it's over.

No, I don't want you to leave. I'm just grabbing your coat and nudging your toward the door for fun #AHOLE

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.