Cookbook Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

  Martha Stewart

  America, Honor, Shelves

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• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Two, Squares, Long

  "Microsoft's Former CTO Takes on Modernist Cuisine" by Mark McClusky, www.wired.com. February 28, 2011.

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• When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Cds, People, Come Up

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• Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!

  Eddie Izzard

  Littles, Red

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• I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.

  Kiran Desai

  Writing, Thinking, Cooking

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• I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.

  Tyler Florence

  Nice, Years, Careers

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• Collecting cookbooks is still my biggest passion! Believe it or not, I actually got the biggest form of inspiration from my kids. My kids do everything online. They would have their tablets in front of them watching hours upon hours of online videos. I came to understand that these videos were actually teaching my kids lots of different forms of information.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Believe, Teaching, Inspiration

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

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