Books Quote by Elizabeth Berg

“Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon the kitchen…

— Laura Shapiro

Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't.

— Thomas Keller

“I go to farmers' markets all the time. Field-to-table is so my thing. But none of the herbs at any of them comes close…

— Barbara Delinsky

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

— Arundhati Roy

Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

— Claudia Christian

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery. Instead, the…

— Harold McGee

“Like most people who love to cook, I like the tangible things...but what I like even more are the intangible things: the familiar voices…

— Molly WIzenberg

“Writing a novel is like making soup. The base is a broth we make up wholesale—for instance, I have one child, not five, and…

— Laurie Frankel

“Sorrel watched fascinated as Delphine set out a row of glass bowls and filled them with all the ingredients for her meal. On one…

— Ellen Herrick

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

— Italo Calvino