Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important. — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life. — Anna Chancellor Copy Share Image
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I love cooking. People seem to enjoy my food, but I absolutely love it. I'm one of those people who will buy… — Polly Walker Copy Share Image
My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating… — Paula Wolfert Copy Share Image
I have a huge collection of cookery books, like most chefs. do I regularly revisit Michel Roux Snr's 'The Collection,' particularly for… — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none.… — Curnonsky Copy Share Image
The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared… — Eliza Acton Copy Share Image
I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but… — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The only acceptable hobby, throughout all stages of life, is cookery. As a child: adorable baked items. Twenties: much appreciated spag bol… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second,Butter; third,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults -… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
