Cookbook Quote by Anthony Lane

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

— Alice B. Toklas

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

— L. M. Boyd

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

— Thomas Keller

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

— Andrei Codrescu

“Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy…

— Anonymous

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

Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

— Erma Bombeck

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

— Grant Achatz

“What I love about reading cookbooks is that they are "clean pornography" for food addicts such as myself .. and quick and easy reads!”

— Janet Pole

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

— Eliza Acton

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

— Akhil Sharma