Cookbook Quotes - Page 3

• The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

  Rex Stout

  Book, Writing, Two

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• Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.

  Gershon Legman

  Hate, Women, Reason

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• Do you really want to make risotto to order when you have eight guests sitting there? No. It won't work. Most cookbooks won't tell you that. They will say make it and it will come out perfectly. They should tell you you're probably going to screw it up the first 10 times you make it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Eight, Order, Sitting

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

  Colonel Sanders

  Apples, Pie, Biscuits

  "KFC dishes up Colonel Sanders' autobiography for free" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Sarcastic, Real, Book

  Andrei Codrescu (1989). “Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Book, Hero

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• To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon's time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe's menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures.

  Raymond Sokolov

  Eye, Europe, Different

  Raymond Sokolov (1993). “Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at your disposal. At the very least, you'll always be ready to whip up a green juice or smoothie.

  Kris Carr

  Healthy, Juice, Green

  "What’s in My Fridge?" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Self Love, Novel, Persons

  Cheryl Mendelson (2007). “Love, Work, Children: A Novel”, p.378, Random House

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• When I was working on the Olympic cookbook it was amazing to discover how different athletes need different types of diets. Everybody thinks that an athlete has to eat lots of carbohydrates, however some athletes don't need that. Some sports such as sprinting are explosive so you need a diet that will give you the energy for that moment.

  William Katt

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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• I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.

  Drew Barrymore

  Cooks, Pregnant

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• I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try.

  Karen Walker

  Book, Home, Trying

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• I keep going back to foundation, heritage cooking techniques from my family in Naples and Abruzzi. There are a lot of traditional dishes from those regions that I want to educate my kids' palates about, to pass down that heritage and that lineage. I think my mom would have been pleasantly surprised and absolutely thrilled to have seen all the cookbooks and all the restaurants and all the television I've done.

  Rick Tramonto

  Mom, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

  Ali Larter

  Reading, Weekend, Relaxation

  "Obsessed with Cooking, M.J., and Being a Manny" by Rebecca Guinness, www.vanityfair.com. April 24, 2009.

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• I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring out what type of business I really wanted to do I was cooking for all of my friends and reading cookbooks and really inspired by the idea of travel and types of foods around the world and I wanted to cook them.

  David Myers

  Reading, Should Have, Ideas

  Source: www.signaturemagazine.com.au

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• I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!

  Bill Johnson

  Vision, Fasting, Watches

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• 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.

  George Polya

  Giving, Pudding, Inventory

  "How to Solve It" by George Polya, Expanded Princeton Science Library Edition, (p. 219), 2004.

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• My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.

  Emeril Lagasse

  New York, New Orleans, Office

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• [The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice cabinet was full of Ben's toy trucks, and Jane couldn't spot a cookbook anywhere. This is the kitchen of a Thinker, she decided, and promised herself that she'd never bother with cooking, either.

  Jeanne Birdsall

  Ducks, Cooking, Kitchen

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• 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.

  Jordin Sparks

  Running, Grandmother, Bakers

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• I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

  Colonel Sanders

  Bird

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• The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

  Bernie Worrell

  Add, Recipes, Envelopes

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• It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

  Maya Angelou

  Book, Writing, Recipes

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• Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Government, Media, Oil

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• Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, People, Innovation

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