Art Quote by Marcel Boulestin

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

— Marcel Boulestin

My chemistry teacher wanted me to do chemistry, and my art teacher wanted me to do art. Fashion seemed like a good in-between -…

— Maria Cornejo

Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to…

— Thomas Jefferson

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

— Mark Twain

“The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just wasn’t the…

— Terry Pratchett

I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each…

— Joseph Conrad

Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

— Barbara Pym

I love cooking. People seem to enjoy my food, but I absolutely love it. I'm one of those people who will buy a cookery…

— Polly Walker

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

— George Eliot

Ten years ago, TV cookery shows were about a man or a woman following recipes. Now, it's all about journeys and campaigns and less…

— Drummond Money-Coutts

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

— Eliza Acton