Cookbook Quotes - Page 2

• My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

  Sandra Lee

  Grandma, Vintage, Letters

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• 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

  Book, Color, Fake

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Ina Garten

  Party, Inspiration, Use

  Interview with Lauren Salkeld, www.epicurious.com.

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Joy

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

  Mario Batali

  Kids, Sound, Looks

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• When I first started writing cookbooks, I remember thinking to myself, what makes me think I can write a cookbook? There are these great chefs who are really trained. And, as I started, I realized, actually, what is my lack is actually exactly right, because I can connect with - cooking's hard for me. I never worked on... And that's why my recipes are really simple, because I want to be able to do them.

  Ina Garten

  Writing, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that I had a very clear vision when I started writing cookbooks what I wanted it to be, and that you would open the book, that you would look at the photograph and go, that looks delicious. And then you would look at the recipe and say, I can actually make that and I can make it with ingredients I can find in the grocery store.

  Ina Garten

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Keys, Ideas, Recipes

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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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• 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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• I've got around 400 cookbooks.

  Heston Blumenthal

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

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

  L. M. Boyd

  Love, Sex, Food

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Apology, Thinking

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

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• I am a cookbook fanatic.

  Samantha Bee

  Fanatics

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

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Library, Pouring, Evening

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• 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.

  Russell Baker

  Looks, Lessons, Recipes

  Russell Baker (2014). “So This is Depravity”, p.75, Diversion Books

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• I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Writing, Want, Fantasy

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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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• The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

  Jerry Falwell

  Pregnancy, Offering, People

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• I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

  Theresa May

  House, Cooking, Inaccessible

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

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• 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.

  Kamala Harris

  Mother, Children, Kitchen

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• 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

  Funny, Fitness, Book

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.210, PublicAffairs

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

  Jo Coudert

  People, Cooking, Found

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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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