Cookbook Quotes

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. (Laurie Colwin)
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore. View quote
Thomas Keller
A cookbook is only as good as its worst recipe. View quote
Julia Child
The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. ... Mathematics cannot be tested in exactly the same manner as a pudding; if all sorts of reasoning are debarred, a course of calculus may easily become an incoherent inventory of indigestible information. View quote
George Pólya
Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history." View quote
Russell Baker
All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef. View quote
Jesse McCartney
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.' View quote
Ree Drummond
Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal. View quote
Ted Allen
I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again. View quote
Kiran Desai
Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry. View quote
Robert J. Marks II
'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows. (Alton Brown)
I am a cookbook fanatic. View quote
Samantha Bee
I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities. View quote
Crescent Dragonwagon
If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions. View quote
Grant Achatz
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. View quote
Grant Achatz
Yes I can,” Curran snarled. "Listen: this is me telling you what you will not do.” I raised the cookbook and tapped him on the nose. Bad cat. View quote
Ilona Andrews
I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me. View quote
Mamie Gummer
I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome. View quote
Mary-Louise Parker
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that. View quote
Michael Symon
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats. (Padma Lakshmi)
I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook. View quote
Kamala Harris
I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show. View quote
Christopher Walken
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. View quote
Maya Angelou
I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook. View quote
Jordin Sparks