Cookery Quotes

52 quotes by 42 authors

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication. — Maya Angelou
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place… — Thomas Jefferson
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste… — Mark Twain
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important. — George Ellwanger
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. — Andre Simon
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century… — Marie-Antoine Careme
It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting… — Eliza Acton
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that… — Aldous Huxley
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. — William Penn
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. — Fannie Farmer
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into… — Willa Cather
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. — Marcel Boulestin
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself. — George Ellwanger
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the… — Andre Simon
The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us… — Louis-Sebastien Mercier
The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If… — Eliza Acton
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities… — Isabella Beeton
Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked… — Charles Dickens

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