Cookery Book Quotes

#1. I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good - good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

Aldous Huxley

#2. 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 book and take it to bed and read it.

Polly Walker

#3. Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took her bath each night with a different cookery book.

Eva Ibbotson

#4. 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

#5. There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.

Robert Southey

#6. Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

Aldous Huxley

#7. Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.

Samuel Johnson

#8. If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.

Gretchen Rubin

#9. This world is to be passed through, shieldmaiden. It is a waypoint on the journey. We meet our family on the way, but we are always only traveling here. It is beyond this world that we will know peace and eternity. Only there will our family be complete." She

Susan Fanetti

#10. What did I care about saving the world if the world couldn't, wouldn't, save her?

Julian Barnes

#11. Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - When adding eggs, break the shells first.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#12. 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

#13. Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

Gary Snyder

#14. Done coma, walking/talking,art, cookery. scouts then wrote two books, asked for help, gave a book to HRH Princess Anne, tried publisher, got another DEGREE, now Google Gillian Mk2, what else can I do?

Gillian Firth

#15. The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.

Ha-Joon Chang