Book publishing Quote by Nathan Myhrvold

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that…

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

— Patrick Rothfuss

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that…

— Jacques Pepin

“Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon the kitchen…

— Laura Shapiro

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

— Prue Leith

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

— Thomas Keller

“Culinary historians looking back at the first decades of the twenty-first century will be blessed with vast quantities of material to study, thanks to…

— Laura Shapiro

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

— Nigel Slater

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

— Grant Achatz

“Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy…

— Anonymous

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

— Thomas Keller