Quotes About Cookbooks

#1. When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

Mandy Patinkin

#2. I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues.

Ogden Nash

#3. One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

Alicia Silverstone

#4. Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

M.F.K. Fisher

#5. I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

Trisha Yearwood

#6. There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

Alexandra Adornetto

#7. The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

Andy Rooney

#8. My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

Debi Mazar

#9. These foods need to be avoided on this diet: Wheat, corn, dairy, soy, refined sugar, caffeine, fruit juices, and artificial sweeteners (except those specified)

New Health Cookbooks

#10. I have two bookcases that used to be filled with cookbooks, but now it's mostly books about politics and government. I might just give this all up and run for office.

Graham Elliot

#11. One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.

Sandra Lee

#12. I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

Samantha Bee

#13. Somewhere close behind air and water is the need for food.

L.J. Martin

#14. That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

Anthony Lane

#15. Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

Andrei Codrescu

#16. I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

Sally Mann

#17. Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

Isabel Gillies

#18. Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

Jose Andres

#19. Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here ... in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.

Catharine Beecher

#20. I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.

Marcus Samuelsson

#21. I never cook from cookbooks.

Teresa Heinz

#22. I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Cheryl Mendelson

#23. I love old cookbooks. I just got such a kick out of them, how the color would be way off or fake looking. The cook books now look so much like magazines, you'll never make food that looks like that. I'd rather see it the ugly way than they way they do it now.

Amy Sedaris

#24. Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at your disposal. At the very least, you'll always be ready to whip up a green juice or smoothie.

Kris Carr

#25. You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

Dean Young

#26. I've seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has to have a story. Some of these people, they open a restaurant, and one year later, there's a cookbook. There's not much of a story yet.

Wylie Dufresne

#27. I used to write cookbooks. It was passion to try to bring healthy and fun recipes to people's homes. It was a way to bring my home to theirs.

Wolfgang Puck

#28. My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

Wolfgang Puck

#29. I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

Colonel Sanders

#30. Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

Mario Batali

#31. 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. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted

Paul Lynde

#32. ...one family's most beloved recipes can become a delicious cornerstone as humanity builds a more pluralistic world where the best pieces of every culture can be enjoyed.

Karen Anderson

#33. I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation.

Ali Larter

#34. The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued ... I've been lucky, I guess.

Padma Lakshmi

#35. 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 an apple pie.

Colonel Sanders

#36. Digital Age Cozy: Cozy mystery can be more than knitting grannies, cats, and cookbooks!

A.E.H. Veenman

#37. My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.

Emeril Lagasse

#38. Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.

Gershon Legman

#39. The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!

Andy Rooney

#40. There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.

Daniel Boulud

#41. CUSTOMER: I don't know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook.
BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?

Jen Campbell

#42. The cookie-verse is infinite

Dorie Greenspan

#43. If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

Nathan Myhrvold

#44. I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of food and cooking. Jennifer McLagan's Fat is a smart, thoughtful book that ultimately asks us to understand our food better.

Michael Ruhlman

#45. Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

L. M. Boyd

#46. Nancy writes romantic cookbooks!

Robyn Peterman

#47. I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.

Drew Barrymore

#48. I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.

Wylie Dufresne

#49. Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

Lauren Graham

#50. Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

Andy Rooney

#51. Healthy Cookbooks For Families Clean Eating and Slow Cooker Recipes Elicia

Elicia Zahler

#52. When I'm in a blue mood, I head for the kitchen. I turn the pages of my favorite cookbooks, summoning the prospective joyful noise of a shared meal. I stand over a bubbling soup, close my eyes, and inhale. From the ground up, everything about nourishment steadies my soul.

Barbara Kingsolver

#53. I'm not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I'm fasting. It's pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don't cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don't eat deep-fried food!

Bill Johnson

#54. Not just a recipe book, but a genuine overview of Tuscany's culinary history and culture, a journey in images through photographs taken specifically by expert photographers.

Tuscookany

#55. bestselling cookbooks;

Debbie Macomber

#56. I believe cooking can be fun, healthy, easy and tasty! I hope you find some recipes in here that are some nice healthy alternatives and become part of your weekly flow.

Angelika Angie Hofmann

#57. If books are tagged as #MustRead, should cookbooks be tagged #MustCook?

Pragati Bidkar

#58. I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.

Roberta Smith

#59. The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

Rex Stout

#60. I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books.

Daniel Humm

#61. Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

Mario Batali

#62. I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.

Tyler Florence

#63. I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

Ina Garten

#64. I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view.

Rick Moranis

#65. When I wake up, I'm like, 'I gotta go to Whole Foods.' I'm constantly reading cookbooks; I bring hardcover cookbooks with me on the plane and tag pages. I just have this crazy food obsession.

Chrissy Teigen

#66. It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Maya Angelou

#67. The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.

Daniel Boulud

#68. What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

Vincent Schiavelli

#69. I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#70. Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.

Marlene Dietrich

#71. 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 a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

Mark Miller

#72. Even some of our cookbooks are banned. (Though it's been centuries, at least, since the Pitches ate fairies.) (You can't even find fairies anymore.) (And it isn't because we ate them all.)

Rainbow Rowell

#73. I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try.

Karen Walker

#74. Never promise to make pie and fail to deliver on that promise.

Kate Lebo

#75. I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.

Emeril Lagasse

#76. I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

Erma Bombeck

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

Jo Coudert