“TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's… — skint foodie 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
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages. — Alexis Soyer Copy Share Image
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself. — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which… — Martial Copy Share Image
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their… — Eliza Acton Copy Share Image
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
The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Ten years ago, TV cookery shows were about a man or a woman following recipes. Now, it's all about journeys and campaigns… — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary… — Seth Grahame-Smith 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
I cook every day and find it really relaxing. I've got a huge amount of cookery books. It's usually traditional British and… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
“The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.” — Antonin Carême 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
One thing I don't like is those three-star kitchens where they force the cooks to do exactly the same thing again and… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
I like cookery programmes: Anthony Bourdain going around the world eating stuff; Rick Stein - he's another favourite. — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To… — Oscar Wilde 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
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
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
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
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
Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those… — Sarah Josepha Hale 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
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
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
“I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good—good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman 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
Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human… — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
If I wasn't an actress, I'd like to cook. I'm pretty obsessed by it. Rome was great in that sense, going to… — Polly Walker Copy Share Image
Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent… — Soren Kierkegaard 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
