I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked. — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake… — Colonel Sanders Copy Share Image
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child… — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't… — Trisha Yearwood Copy Share Image
The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
“Angel food cake could never be the food legitimate angels eat, because in heaven you can eat steak and chocolate and very… — Allison Robicelli Copy Share Image
I love old cookbooks. I just got such a kick out of them, how the color would be way off or fake… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances;… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
“Summer of this year I will be releasing a 'diabetic friendly' cookbook, sharing recipes and tips that have helped me lose 140… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: I don’t know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook. BOOKSELLER: The Dinah… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
Growing up as a young chef, the cookbooks I had, and I remember, were the Roux brothers. The Roux brothers for me… — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
When I go out shopping and pass a bookstore, I always grab a couple of cookbooks, so I have a library of… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
When I wake up, I'm like, 'I gotta go to Whole Foods.' I'm constantly reading cookbooks; I bring hardcover cookbooks with me… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
I love cookbooks. I certainly have my fair share at home, but I'm a really funny cookbook person: I don't really ever… — Christina Tosi Copy Share Image
“Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
