The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. — William Penn 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
Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world — Delia Smith 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 have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. — Louise Brown 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
[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
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. — Marcel Boulestin Copy Share Image
When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating… — Paula Wolfert Copy Share Image
I have a huge collection of cookery books, like most chefs. do I regularly revisit Michel Roux Snr's 'The Collection,' particularly for… — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it… — John Ruskin 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
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
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
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
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
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
Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity… — John Thorne 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
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
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
“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
I like cookery shows much more than my husband, so I put them on the minute he goes away. — Claudia Winkleman Copy Share Image
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be. — Martial Copy Share Image
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A cookery book should be there for inspiration. Recipes should be a guideline, and they shouldn't be cast in stone. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of… — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image