Book Quote by L. M. Boyd

“What I love about reading cookbooks is that they are "clean pornography" for food addicts such as myself .. and quick and easy reads!”

— Janet Pole

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

— Andy Rooney

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

— Jo Coudert

Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and…

— Andy Rooney

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

— Padma Lakshmi

After 'Bake Off,' I got these book deals that were very much baking books. But the books I'm producing now like 'Perfect Plates in…

— John Whaite

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

— Grant Achatz

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

— Andy Rooney

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

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

— Julia Child