Americans spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.

Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

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

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." -Harriet Van Horne

"There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette." -French Proverb

"There is no such thing as a little garlic." -unknown

"Kissing don't last: cookery do." -George Meredith

"Hunger is the best sauce in the world." -Cervantes

"Kissing don't last: cookery do." -George Meredith

Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." -Harriet Van Horne

"A smiling face is half the meal." -Latvian Proverb

Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.

"I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation." -Madam Benoit

"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody." -Samuel Pepys

"Cheese- milk's leap towards immortality." -Clifton Fadiman

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." -Virgina Woolf

"Savory seasonings stimulate the appetite." -Latin Proverb

"A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the world than any sermon." -Arthur Pendenys

"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody." -Samuel Pepys