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
“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 receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. — William Penn 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
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
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults -… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner.… — Martial 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
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but… — William Shakespeare 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
Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages. — Alexis Soyer 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
“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
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. — Athenaeus 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 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
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
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
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson 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
