Bedtime Quote by Alton Brown

My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat…

— Alton Brown

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

— Thomas Keller

My inability to follow recipes as written - without obeying the devil on my shoulder telling me to replace ingredients or change the temperature…

— Samin Nosrat

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking…

— Sally Schneider

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

— Alton Brown

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

— Grant Achatz

Cooking is a philosophy; it's not a recipe.

— Marco Pierre White

Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.

— Mario Batali

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.

— Harriet Van Horne

Cooking is chemistry, really.

— Joel Robuchon

Cooking is about ingredients.

— Dick Strawbridge