Cookbook Quotes - Page 4

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

  Colonel Sanders

  Bird

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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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• Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

  Mario Batali

  Hate, Dumb, Different

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• My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mom, Children, Refrigerators

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• '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

  Dark, Men, Cooking

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• I used to write cookbooks. It was passion to try to bring healthy and fun recipes to people's homes. It was a way to bring my home to theirs.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Fun, Passion, Home

  "An Interview With Master Chef, Wolfgang Puck". Interview with David Murphy, foodnservice.com. January 29, 2016.

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• My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Passion, Writing, Collecting

  "An Interview With Master Chef, Wolfgang Puck". Interview with David Murphy, foodnservice.com. January 29, 2016.

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• It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Mom, Fun, Writing

  "Not My Job: Singer Trisha Yearwood Gets Quizzed On Unhappy Couples". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 27, 2016.

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• I had written two cookbooks, and they had done well, but I wanted to move to fitness, because it's big with me.

  Robert Irvine

  Moving, Two, Done

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Offering, Generations, Analogies

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• I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of food and cooking. Jennifer McLagan's Fat is a smart, thoughtful book that ultimately asks us to understand our food better.

  Michael Ruhlman

  Smart, Book, Thoughtful

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• I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Baby, Kids, Thinking

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• According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Wall, Book, Streets

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• (About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

  Terry Pratchett

  Honor, Maids, Ends

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• Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

  Lauren Graham

  Writing, Actors, Should

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheese making 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.

  Jesse McCartney

  Birthday, Class, Kitchen

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• I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Stuff, Ingredients, Complicated

  "Trisha Yearwood on simple cookin' and Garth". www.today.com. November 5, 2009.

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• A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.

  George Ellwanger

  Skills, Cooking, Excellence

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• The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.

  Mario Batali

  Real, Differences, Long

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• I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Cooking, Baking, Vegan

  "Face Time | Mary Louise Parker and Charlie Mars". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 11, 2011.

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• One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.

  Sandra Lee

  Years, Grilling, Can Do

  Interview with Kathryn Jezer-Morton, www.askmen.com.

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• If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.

  William Powell

  Book, America, Jail

  "The Anarchist Cookbook" by William Powell, (Introduction), 1971.

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• Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.

  Catharine Beecher

  Food, America, Sky

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.190, Applewood Books

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• One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

  Thomas Keller

  Food, Writing, Cooking

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