I'm quite happy with something foodie or cookbooks - I…

I love cookbooks. I collect them.

— Haylie Duff

I love cookbooks. I certainly have my fair share at home, but I'm a really funny cookbook person: I don't really ever cook out…

— Christina Tosi

I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning,…

— Marcus Samuelsson

We've done some stand-alone cookbooks that have been very successful, like 'Great Curries,' 'Perfect Pies,' 'Meat Feasts,' so why not 'Chicken & Egg?'

— Dave Myers

I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.

— Roberta Smith

It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now.

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

A lot of cookbooks also have incredible food writing, even though I feel like a lot of cookbook authors don't necessarily identify with being…

— Michelle Zauner

On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.

— Roger Scruton

“Who are you? She asked silently, as she laid away the collector's quotations, his drawings, his scraps of famous poetry: "Come live with me…

— Allegra Goodman

There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six…

— Daniel Boulud

“Somewhere close behind air and water is the need for food.”

— L.J. Martin

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in…

— Mario Batali

Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we…

— Anthony Lane

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or…

— Colonel Sanders

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

— Anonymous