Quotes from George Ellwanger

Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.