Cookbook Quote by Julia Child

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the…

— Alicia Silverstone

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

— Grant Achatz

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

— Thomas Keller

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just…

— Michael Symon

Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should…

— Michael Symon

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

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

— Jo Coudert

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

— Thomas Keller

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

— Prue Leith

A lot of cookbooks also have incredible food writing, even though I feel like a lot of cookbook authors don't necessarily identify with being…

— Michelle Zauner

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