Cookbook Quotes

77 quotes by 60 authors

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 the… — Mario Batali
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
'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path… — Alton Brown
Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at… — Kris Carr
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The… — Maya Angelou
All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheese making class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to… — Jesse McCartney
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats. — Padma Lakshmi
The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess. — Padma Lakshmi
As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing. — Alice B. Toklas
Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that. — Michael Symon
I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find. — Trisha Yearwood
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a… — John Thorne
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps… — M.F.K. Fisher
Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry. — Robert J. Marks II
The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew. — Bernie Worrell
Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook! — Eddie Izzard
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. — Vincent Schiavelli
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of… — George Ellwanger
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a… — Thomas Keller
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. — L. M. Boyd

Who Wrote These Cookbook Quotes

60 authors contributed a total of 77 Cookbook Quotes, led by these top contributors: