[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their… — Eliza Acton Copy Share Image
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself. — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages. — Alexis Soyer Copy Share Image
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which… — Martial Copy Share Image
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“To follow our bliss and dive deeply into the mysteries of fragrance, color, and taste; blend with the magnificent diversity of mother… — Prana Gogia Copy Share Image
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Ten years ago, TV cookery shows were about a man or a woman following recipes. Now, it's all about journeys and campaigns… — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. — Athenaeus Copy Share Image
I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
I like cookery programmes: Anthony Bourdain going around the world eating stuff; Rick Stein - he's another favourite. — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.” — Antonin Carême Copy Share Image
There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One thing I don't like is those three-star kitchens where they force the cooks to do exactly the same thing again and… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
I cook every day and find it really relaxing. I've got a huge amount of cookery books. It's usually traditional British and… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I would love to do a cookery show and cookery books. I'm not a professional cook, but I can definitely cook. I… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
Everything is tested in my little kitchen. The recipes are mine and that's really important to me. When I do a cookery… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every… — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good—good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of… — Eliza Acton Copy Share Image
'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basics. If I were… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image