“Cooking is love made visible”

“Cooking is love made visible” has been used on many gift items. “Work is love made visible” is a saying popularized in The Prophet (1923) by Kahlil Gibran.
 
“Cooking is love made visible” has been cited in print since at least 2001.
 
 
Google Books
21 February 1896, Onward, pg. 12, col. 3:
“A child is love made visible.”
 
Google Books
The Prophet
By Kahlil Gibran
New York, NY: Knopf
1923
Pg. 14:
Work is love made visible.
 
Google Groups: rec.food.cooking
Food Quotes/Steal Wolfgang’s?
7 Ronda L. Carnicelli Jan 29 2001
 
Here are a few cooking quotes I like:

“Cooking is love made visible.”
-Anonymous
       
CookingLight.com Community
Puppylove
10-17-2007, 10:37 AM
I saw a great one on another thread from Kim (I forget the rest of her signon name): “Cooking is love made visible”
 
3 February 2010, Kansas City (MO) Star, “At the end of the season, chops make a super grill” by Mary G. Pepitone, pg. E2:
I have a sign on the wall of my kitchen that says, “Cooking is love made visible,” and that pretty much sums it up for me.