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

  Food, Past, Cooking Classes

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• I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

  Dean Young

  Want, Happy Endings

  Dean Young (2007). “Embryoyo”, McSweeneys Books

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• Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That's a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, 'If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better.'

  Laurie Colwin

  Nice, Reading, Food

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

  Vincent Schiavelli

  People, Interesting, Culture

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• The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Views, Voice, Recipes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

  Michael Symon

  Thinking, Important, Recipes

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• The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

  Julia Child

  Funny, Food, Vegetables

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• Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.

  Thomas More

  Food, Choices, Advice

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• No one who cooks cooks alone.

  Laurie Colwin

  Cooking Classes, Home Cooking, Chefs Cooking

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• A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

  Thomas Keller

  Recipes, Guides, Should

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• I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.

  Thomas Keller

  Successful, Thinking, Two

  "Table Talk with Thomas Keller". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• 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

  Book, Loss, Dieting

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• Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.

  Ted Allen

  Deals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

  Julia Child

  Food, Recipes, Poorest

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.

  Ming-Na Wen

  Home, Thinking, Cooking

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• 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 Millar

  People, Culture, Want

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• I've got around 400 cookbooks.

  Heston Blumenthal

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.

  Anthony Lane

  Honesty, Order, Kitchen

  Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.651, Vintage

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

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Cooking, Half

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• 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

  Thinking, Judging, Cooking

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Thomas Keller

  Italian, Cooking, Foundation

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• 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.

  Grant Achatz

  People, Advice, Cooking

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