Assuming Quote by Mary Ann Shaffer

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

— Thomas Keller

A cookery book should be there for inspiration. Recipes should be a guideline, and they shouldn't be cast in stone.

— Marco Pierre White

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

— Jo Coudert

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or…

— Colonel Sanders

You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier…

— Sally Schneider

I wanted to give my readers instructions but also the ability to make their own decisions and have fun with cooking. I wanted to…

— Tabitha Brown

I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it…

— Alton Brown

I'm trying to learn how to cook.

— Sharon Van Etten

The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I…

— Drew Barrymore

I could not be more thrilled to be writing about the recipes I love and think are essential to any novice home cook, professional,…

— Antoni Porowski

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

I'm a great cook. People have asked me to do a cookbook.

— Dianne Reeves