Best Cookery Quotes
52 Cookery quotes by 41 unique authors
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Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the…
— Curnonsky
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Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit for human sustenance,…
— Unknown Author
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If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in…
— Robin G. Collingwood
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I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.
— Louise Brown
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I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.
— Jane Asher
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A crier of green sauce.
— Francois Rabelais
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears…
— Martial
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
— Martial
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The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
— Francois Fenelon
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He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry…
— William Shakespeare
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Would the cook were o' my mind!
— William Shakespeare
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Kissing don't last: cookery do!
— George Meredith
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Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness,…
— John Ruskin
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Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine,…
— Aldous Huxley
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I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
— Barbara Pym
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Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes…
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.
— Donald Barthelme
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I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other,…
— Joseph Conrad
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Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.
— Marcel Boulestin
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Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages,…
— Martin Parr
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I love cookery programmes.
— Cilla Black
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I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.
— Lesley Nicol
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