Top 74 Quotes About Cookery
#1. There is only one recipe - to care a great deal for the cookery.
Henry James
#2. I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.
Delia Smith
#3. Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
Thomas Carlyle
#4. 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
#5. I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.
Simon Schama
#6. Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
Aldous Huxley
#7. Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
Soren Kierkegaard
#8. 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
#9. If I wasn't an actress, I'd like to cook. I'm pretty obsessed by it. Rome was great in that sense, going to amazing cookery bookshops. No wonder their food is good because the quality and wide range of their produce is so good. It's not fair, really.
Polly Walker
#10. I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
Barbara Pym
#11. Julie's cookery is actually improving," Paul wrote Charlie [his twin]. "I didn't quite believe it would, just between us, but it really is. It's simpler, more classical ... I envy her this chance. It would be such fun to be doing it at the same time with her.
Julia Child
#12. It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.
Eliza Acton
#13. I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.
Louise Brown
#14. 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
#15. Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
Maya Angelou
#16. ...fundamental Italian cookery rule that less is more!
Francine Segan
#17. Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.
Curnonsky
#18. I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts.
Joseph Conrad
#19. 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
#20. Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.
Marcel Boulestin
#21. I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.
Jane Asher
#22. Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.
Aldous Huxley
#23. I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.
Lesley Nicol
#24. The curious alchemy of cookery, that process of making the transfer of life from one being to another palatable.
Diana Gabaldon
#25. I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.
Bonnie Raitt
#26. Everything is relative but there is a standard which must not be deviated from, especially with reference to the basic culinary preparations. A. Escoffier The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery
Michael Ruhlman
#27. No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
Willa Cather
#28. This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit
Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense,
More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it
Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence.
John Davies Of Hereford
#29. 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
#30. Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.
George Ellwanger
#31. 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
#32. I would love to do a cookery show and cookery books. I'm not a professional cook, but I can definitely cook. I know the difference between good and bad cooking. I mean, when I was in 'Big Brother' I was the glorified cook of the house, so if I got offered my own show - then why not?
Shilpa Shetty
#33. I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.
Anton Du Beke
#34. The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
Francois Fenelon
#35. What passes for cookery in England is an abomination.
Virginia Woolf
#36. Cookery means ... English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.
John Ruskin
#38. My interest in food really began with a month's cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not an incredible cook, alas, but a real enthusiast. Food and cooking is at the core of entertaining, and my passion grew and grew.
Pippa Middleton
#39. A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.
Mark Twain
#40. The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.
George Ellwanger
#41. I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life.
Anna Chancellor
#42. I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it?
Lesley Nicol
#43. TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's happening on screen.
Skint Foodie
#44. Okay, a lot of people think that I'm someone known for a love of eggs and egg cookery. Being asked to endorse an egg yolk separator, I mean, I understood where it came from, but it didn't seem necessarily like something that was ultimately worth pursuing.
Wylie Dufresne
#45. 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
#46. Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.
Samuel Johnson
#47. I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.
Charles Hazlewood
#48. The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
Michel De Montaigne
#49. Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.
William Booth
#50. Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
Andre Simon
#51. Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery
John Pilger
#52. The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just wasn't the kind of logic you'd use around midday.
Terry Pratchett
#54. Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.
Alexis Soyer
#56. Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.
C.S. Lewis
#58. Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. 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
#60. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.
Martin Parr
#61. In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin
#62. To set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.
Marie-Antoine Careme
#63. The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.
Jane Asher
#64. Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
Robert A. Burton
#65. I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.
Donald Barthelme
#66. As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.
Isabella Beeton
#67. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
Fannie Farmer
#68. I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.
Jane Asher
#69. Ten years ago, TV cookery shows were about a man or a woman following recipes. Now, it's all about journeys and campaigns and less about the actual chopping and dicing. That's what I'd like to do with magic.
Drummond Money-Coutts
#70. (to father) Aren't you glad that you've never had to buy vegeterian cookery books as the first small step on the road to getting inside someone's knickers?
(father) ... however vegeterian recepies you have read, you still have more fun than we were ever allowed.
Nick Hornby
#71. The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.
Marie-Antoine Careme
#73. We are all works in progress, the authors of our own lives.
Caroline James
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