The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

The right way to collaborate, I think, is to divide projects into sharply defined modules, each with a definite owner,

Writing is harmless, and it keeps me in dinners and out of trouble.

A good cook was like a good educator; his duty was solely to bring out the talent of the chicken and show it to best advantage, as a good teacher brings out the talent inherent in a young man. Granted that the original talent was there in the chicken, too much coaxing, stuffing, imposing, and spicing would merely distract from its simple beauty and virtue.

it has always been both necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, and to separate them, so as to reduce his problems to manageable proportions; for evidently, if in our practical technical work we tried to deal with the whole of reality all at once, we would be swamped. So, in certain ways, the creation of special subjects of study and the division of labour was an important step forward.

"Division is thus seen to be a convenient means of giving a more articulated and detailed description to this whole, rather than a fragmentation of "what is"."

In other words, cooking encourages specialisation by sex. The first and deepest division of labour is the sexual one.

one finds great comfort in good dinners

delivering a speech or presentation is like cooking a meal; as long as the chef is good the cuisine doesn’t matter.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.

It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.

The way she said “dinner” and the way she said “champagne” gave meat and liquid their exact difference, as if by having surmounted two mediums, earth and air, her talent, running forward, achieved all others.

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

When it came to the home-for-dinner dilemma, I installed new boundaries, ones that worked better for me and the girls. We made our schedule and stuck to it. ...It went back to my wishes for them to grow up strong and centered and also unaccommodating to any form of old-school patriarchy: I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.