Cookbook Quote by Alton Brown

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that…

— Jacques Pepin

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

— Padma Lakshmi

I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of food and…

— Michael Ruhlman

I had been blogging for a few years when Jonah Straus, my now-literary agent, reached out to see if I'd consider writing a cookbook.…

— Molly Yeh

“Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to gain money…

— Padma Lakshmi

“Culinary historians looking back at the first decades of the twenty-first century will be blessed with vast quantities of material to study, thanks to…

— Laura Shapiro

“No one became a great cook just by reading the recipes.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Good food depends as largely upon the judgment of the cook, as upon the materials used. These recipes and Household Hints are written very…

— Lydia Maria Gurney

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

“I hope this book will inspire the kitchen con-artist in you, increase fruit and veggie consumption in your family, and motivate you to become…

— Merrin McGregor

“A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon.”

— James Hamilton-Paterson

cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

— Jo Coudert