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 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 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
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
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 feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life. — Anna Chancellor 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
