Then let us meet them like necessities.

Throughout The Knoxville Cookbook, its editors chose to include a variety of quotations, slogans, and aphorisms referring to a theme of  the nobility of labor and reverence for the smallest tasks and duties. These words seem to reflect the quote above from Ossoli Circle namesake Margaret Fuller, suggesting that the club's ethos was a central part of the identity the cookbook editors wanted to impart to their readers.