“Eating is a necessity, but cooking is an art” is a cooking saying that has been printed on many images. The saying was posted on Twitter on May 21, 2013, probably from one of these images.
However, the saying is much older. Cookbook author Gesine Lemcke used “Eating is a Necessity, But Cooking is an Art” in the 1890s.
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Desserts and Salads
By Gesine Lemcke
Published for the author
1911 (copyright 1892, 1896)
Pg. 1 (Cover):
“Eating is a Necessity,
But Cooking is an Art.”
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Two Hundred Recipes for Making Desserts: Including French Pastries
By Olive M. Hulse
Chicago, IL: The Hopewell Press
1912
Pg. 80:
Eating is a necessity, but cooking is an art.
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Good Food, how to Prepare it
By George E. Cornforth
Washington, DC: Review and Herald Publishing Association
1920
Pg. 7:
“It has been said that ” eating is a necessity, but cooking is an art.”
26 March 1926, Pittston (PA) Gazette, “Recipes Worth Remembering” by Mrs. E. K. Lemcke (Famous Authority on Cooking), pg. 2, col. 2:
“Eating is a necessity. But cooking is an art.”
Twitter
Bacco Wine Bar
@BaccoWineBar
“Eating is a necessity, but #cooking is an art.”
8:33 AM - 21 May 2013
Twitter
Andy-Sensei!
@ItsAndyBroo
Eating is a necessity , but cooking is an art.
10:12 PM - 22 May 2013
Twitter
BELLA
@BellaLife
Eating is a necessity but #cooking is an art.
4:30 PM - 4 Jun 2013
Twitter
Polaner
@Polanerspreads
Eating is a necessity, but cooking is an art - http://polanerspreads.com #polaner #food #quote #cooking #ar http://pinterest.com/pin/532198880936278660/ …
1:23 PM - 6 Jun 2013
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Applied Business Analytics:
Integrating Business Process, Big Data, and Advanced Analytics
By Nathaniel Lin
Upper Saddle RIver, NJ: FT Press
2014
Pg. 73:
“Eating is a necessity, but cooking is an art.” —Unknown
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Kelsey the Spy
By Linda Joy Singleton
Chicago, IL: Albert Whitman & Company
2016
Pg. 289:
He must have been in the kitchen working on a culinary masterpiece because he’s wearing his Eating Is a Necessity but Cooking Is an Art apron.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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