Cookery Books Quotes

• I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

  Louise Brown

  Book, Cooking, Eating

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• I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world

  Delia Smith

  Book, Magazines, World

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• Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Fall, Reading

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• It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

  Alton Brown

  Book, Often Is, Looks

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, November 24, 2016.

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• All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Cooking, Special

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.

  Robert Southey

  Book, Advice, Digestion

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.99

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• When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

  George Eliot

  Book, Reading, Men

  George Eliot (2010). “Middlemarch”, p.305, Lulu.com

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• It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

  Eliza Acton

  Book, Needs, Half

  Eliza Acton (1860). “Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained”, p.11

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