“To be a good cook means the knowledge of all fruits, herbs, balms, and spices, and of all that is healing and sweet in fields and groves, savoury in meats ; it means carefulness, inventiveness, watchful willingness, and readiness of appliance ; it means the economy of great grandmothers, and the science of modern chemists ; it means much tasting and no wasting; it means English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality ; it means, enfin, that you are to see that everybody has something nice to eat.”

John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)