Book Quote by Eliza Acton

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

— Grant Achatz

cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

— Jo Coudert

Every cookbook can be a bit patronising.

— Ainsley Harriott

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

— Julia Child

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

— Thomas Keller

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need…

— Thomas Keller

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

— Alice B. Toklas

Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them.

— Prue Leith

I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.

— Thomas Keller

According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.

— Maureen Corrigan

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

— Colonel Sanders

I'm not much of a chef, so people keep buying me cookery books to broaden my culinary horizons, but I've not got far past…

— Guy Martin