Cookbooks Quotes

41 quotes by 34 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
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
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
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
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
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. — Vincent Schiavelli
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. — L. M. Boyd
Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks. — Gershon Legman
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… — Anthony Lane
That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears. — Anthony Lane
I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties. — Ina Garten
As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By… — Paul Lynde
It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to… — Maya Angelou
One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it… — Sandra Lee
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird. — Colonel Sanders
Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good. — Mario Batali
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase… — Samantha Bee
I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still… — Tyler Florence
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. — Andrei Codrescu
I've got around 400 cookbooks. — Heston Blumenthal

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