Recipes, famous quotes & simple sound advice for cookbook idea -- a gift for newlyweds?

Question

My daughter, niece and I are assembling a cookbook for my nephew's fiancee. Any great ideas for recipes, funny jokes, famous "one liners" and good marriage advice, etc.? A cute and humorous title?

Already have some good material, but your help with this project will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Love Quotes

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

f***y Fern (1811-1872)



"It seems to me that 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, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it; and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied; and it is all one."

M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

"I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them."

Nora Ephron, Heartburn



"Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine."

Anthony Trollope, English novelist (1815-1882)



“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”

George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856-1950)



“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.”

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)



“Wine comes in at the mouth

And love comes in at the eye;

That's all we shall know for truth

Before we grow old and die.

I lift the glass to my mouth,

I look at, and I sigh.”

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Irish dramatist, poet.

This website's got lots of poems, recipes, quotes and general 'food' ideas.

Sounds like a great idea what ur doin, personal and practical. It really shows u care.

Answer 2

Love the idea!!!

I would ask each person in the family to write out their favorite recipe.

Then ask them to add a personal note to it like (Johns favorite after school snack) (Uncle joe's sick soup) and so on.

I think the whole personal handwritten recipe means so much.

(My mother in Law has passed away and one of our prize possessions are her hand written recipes)

Have a great time and Congrats to the couple.

Answer 3

Avoid fruits and nuts..you are what you eat.

No man is lonely while eating Spaghetti.

Health food may be good for the conscience ... But Oreos taste a h**l of a lot better!

Answer 4

Great idea!  I'll bet you guys scrapbook, huh?  So it'll look awesome!

"I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty: I want to see your enthusiasm."

--Robert Faarar Capon

Know what would be fun?  Find an old homemaking textbook from the 1920's or 1930's, and quote it.  They always have goofy stuff about pleasing your husband, canning and preserving, menu planning,  but some really old-fashined things, too, regarding running a home.