Approach Quote by Walter Benjamin

“What a joy this book is! I love recipe books, but it’s short-lived; I enjoy the pictures for several minutes, read a few pages,…

— Anonymous

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

— Mitch Albom

“The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

“I hope this book will inspire the kitchen con-artist in you, increase fruit and veggie consumption in your family, and motivate you to become…

— Merrin McGregor

Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't.

— Thomas Keller

I always wanted to write a book about a common food that becomes a commercial commodity and therefore becomes economically important and therefore becomes…

— Mark Kurlansky

Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental…

— Austin Grossman

As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me.…

— Paul Lynde

“There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is…

— Gertrude Atherton

That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion.…

— Michael Pollan

“When you live in an artificial feeding culture, you miss the unconscious, lifelong lessons of how to hold your baby.”

— Gabrielle Palmer