On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. — Andrei Codrescu 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
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
I have one room off my kitchen filled with nothing but cookbooks and recipes that are sent to me from around the… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
“Who are you? She asked silently, as she laid away the collector's quotations, his drawings, his scraps of famous poetry: "Come live… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“To make a tarte of strawberyes," wrote Margaret Parker in 1551, "take and strayne theym with the yolkes of four eggs, and… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“Right now I am thinking of writing another cookbook. All cookbooks have a gimmick, and mine will be that it contains recipes… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked. — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home. — Daniel Boulud 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
I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that. — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties. — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. — Vincent Schiavelli Copy Share Image
I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
