Cookbook Quote by Kiran Desai

I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

— Dorothy West

I used to write cookbooks. It was passion to try to bring healthy and fun recipes to people's homes. It was a way to…

— Wolfgang Puck

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn…

— Ted Allen

I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

— Diane Mott Davidson

I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one…

— Marcus Samuelsson

I love to cook, man, I'm the short-order cook of the house. It's also my creativity. The kitchen is my space. I'm always cooking,…

— John Carter Cash

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

— Aimee Bender

When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I…

— Fran Lebowitz

The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different…

— Nigella Lawson

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.

— Sybille Bedford

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

— Wolfgang Puck

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

— Ann-Margret