Cookery Quotes - Page 2

• A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

  Martial

  Should, Masters, Cooks

  Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”

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• I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world

  Delia Smith

  Book, Magazines, World

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• A crier of green sauce.

  Francois Rabelais

  Green, Sauce

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  Fannie Farmer

  Food, Civilization, Cooking

  Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896). “Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

  Maya Angelou

  Communication, Writing, Mean

  "Maya Angelou: 'I make no apologies for writing a cookbook'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2011.

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• Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

  Craig Claiborne

  Children, Food, Cooking Classes

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• Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

  John Dryden

  Kitchen, Frost, Cost

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.455

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• I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Would the cook were o' my mind!

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Cooks

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1452, Oxford University Press

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• Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Doors, Smell

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.54, Penguin

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• If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

  Martial

  Food, Giving, Teeth

  Martial (1907). “The Epigrams of Martial”

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• 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

  Book, Fall, Reading

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• I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

  Jane Asher

  Mum

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• It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

  Alton Brown

  Book, Often Is, Looks

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, November 24, 2016.

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• He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork and leapt from her chair onto the table. Lydia, who was seated nearest her, grabbed her ankle before she could dive at Mr. Collins and, presumably, stab him about the head and neck for such an insult.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Cousin, Mr Collins, Owing

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.65, Chronicle Books

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• 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

  Volume, Stomach, Temperance

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• So here are some foolproof recipes for those of you who understand the true function of food.
  Bean Treat: Gingerly pour four fluid oz of beans or something into a jug. Cry. Eat the beans from the jug and pour the rest from the can down your throat. N.B. These taste better if they belong to somebody else in your house.
  Pain au Dunk: Fists of bread, rent from the loaf and dunked into anything runnier than bread. Should eat at least six of these because…you should. Don’t toast the bread. Toast is cookery.

  Dylan Moran

  Pain, House, Four

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• I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

  Barbara Pym

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• 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

  Believe, Wife, Charm

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

  Alexis Soyer

  Food, Cooking, Foundation

  Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.88

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• 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

  School, Levels, Nightmare

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• 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

  Art, Cooking, Made

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.146, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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

  Book, Advice, Digestion

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.99

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• The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

  Julia Child

  Book, Cooking, Needs

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• Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Integrity, Book, Creativity

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