Cookbook Quote by Alice B. Toklas Download Open image “As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.” — Alice B. Toklas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cookbook Cooking Culinary Food Ifs Inspirational Love Writing
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
A lot of cookbooks also have incredible food writing, even though I feel like a lot of cookbook authors don't necessarily identify with being… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment. — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for… — Trisha Yearwood Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a cheffy cookbook with dehydrated ham chips. — Alex Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
“Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car...” — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah,… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill… — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks. — Gershon Legman Copy Share Image
British cookbook author Elizabeth David led the most adventurous life but is widely credited with bringing to the fore the importance of home cooking. — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or… — Colonel Sanders 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; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in… — Anthony Lane Copy Share
“It's a recipe for agrumato," he says, sounding surprised. I roll the unfamiliar name in Italian around on my tongue. "Agrumato? What's that?" Nicolo's brow is furrowed. "I don't exactly know," he admits. "I've heard Violetta use the word." We turn expectantly to Nonna. She explains, "It's the term for olive oil that is combined with other things," she says.… — Rachel Linden Copy Share
My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. — Anthony Bourdain 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 done in… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
