Cookbook Quotes

• You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

  Dean Young

  Want, Happy Endings

  Dean Young (2007). “Embryoyo”, McSweeneys Books

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• Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

  Ina Garten

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• Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That's a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, 'If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better.'

  Laurie Colwin

  Nice, Reading, Food

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• No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Past, Cooking Classes

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• What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

  Vincent Schiavelli

  People, Interesting, Culture

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• The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

  Julia Child

  Funny, Food, Vegetables

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

  Samantha Bee

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

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• Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.

  John Thorne

  Food, Other Cultures, Joy

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• The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Views, Voice, Recipes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

  Thomas Keller

  Recipes, Guides, Should

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• Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

  Michael Symon

  Thinking, Important, Recipes

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• Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.

  Thomas More

  Food, Choices, Advice

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• No one who cooks cooks alone.

  Laurie Colwin

  Cooking Classes, Home Cooking, Chefs Cooking

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• I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.

  Thomas Keller

  Successful, Thinking, Two

  "Table Talk with Thomas Keller". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.

  Anthony Lane

  Honesty, Order, Kitchen

  Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.651, Vintage

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• A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

  Julia Child

  Food, Recipes, Poorest

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

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

  Andy Rooney

  Book, Loss, Dieting

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• I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

  Christopher Walken

  Writing, Cooking, Might

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• Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

  Mark Millar

  People, Culture, Want

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• I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

  Erma Bombeck

  Beautiful, Cooking, Room Service

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.97, Fawcett

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• Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Food, Men

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.

  Ted Allen

  Deals

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

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