Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I had been offered a six-figure deal to write two cookery books. Six figures, at just 23. — John Whaite Copy Share Image
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. — William Penn Copy Share Image
I like cookery shows much more than my husband, so I put them on the minute he goes away. — Claudia Winkleman Copy Share Image
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be. — Martial Copy Share Image
I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Even in my genre, cookery, just look who gets on the television. Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater. All very nice men.… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I don't do cookery shows to show off, I do it to encourage people. What's the point in going on TV and… — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a chef, so people keep buying me cookery books to broaden my culinary horizons, but I've not got… — Guy Martin Copy Share Image
“TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's… — skint foodie Copy Share Image
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
A cookery book should be there for inspiration. Recipes should be a guideline, and they shouldn't be cast in stone. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“Cookery simulates the disguise of medicine, and pretends to know what food is the best for the body; and if the physician… — Plato Copy Share Image
This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love… — Leah Chase Copy Share Image
Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My interest in food really began with a months cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Cookery means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe and of Helen and of the Queen of Sheba. It means the knowledge… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered… — Louis-Sebastien Mercier Copy Share Image
Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit… — Friedrich Accum Copy Share Image
So here are some foolproof recipes for those of you who understand the true function of food. Bean Treat: Gingerly pour four… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
First dentistry was painless. Then bicycles were chainless, Carriages were horseless, And many laws enforceless. Next cookery was fireless, Telegraphy was wireless,… — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
“So far from a political ideology being the quasi-divine parent of political activity, it turns out to be its earthly stepchild. Instead… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of… — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. — Marcel Boulestin Copy Share Image
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
