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My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook. -- Sandra Lee
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore. -- Thomas Keller
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
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
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
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
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
I've got around 400 cookbooks. -- Heston Blumenthal
A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe. -- Julia Child
Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good. -- Mario Batali
Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out. -- Ina Garten
Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal. -- Ted Allen
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. -- Andrei Codrescu
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. -- L. M. Boyd
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels. -- Ree Drummond
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. -- Vincent Schiavelli
A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide. -- Thomas Keller
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it. -- Andy Rooney
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
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
I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook. -- Kamala Harris
Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history. -- Russell Baker
I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me. -- Mamie Gummer
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
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it! -- Andy Rooney
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
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
I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome. -- Mary-Louise Parker
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. -- Grant Achatz
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show. -- Christopher Walken
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.' -- Ree Drummond
When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes. -- Tom Douglas
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' -- Nathan Myhrvold
I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities. -- Crescent Dragonwagon
I would definitely be interested in doing a cooking show or something related to cooking, and I think probably most immediately, I would do a cookbook. -- Keshia Knight Pulliam
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's 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
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, and the wisdom of cookbook writers. -- Laurie Colwin
In my 'Big Dinners' cookbook, I recreated my mother's recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing. -- Tom Douglas
Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather. -- Kristina McMorris
If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions. -- Grant Achatz
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
I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. -- Maya Angelou
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
All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking 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
Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I am a cookbook fanatic. -- Samantha Bee
Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook! -- Eddie Izzard
As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing. -- Alice B. Toklas
Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America. -- Martha Stewart
One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment. -- Thomas Keller
I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful. -- Thomas Keller
Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there. -- Clayton Christensen
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats. -- Padma Lakshmi
Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry. -- Robert J. Marks II
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
I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible. -- Theresa May
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
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
(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
I have been incredibly lucky with my novels but I had absolutely no idea if anyone would be interested in a cookbook. So I started to think about self-publishing. -- Jane Green
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
Yes I can," Curran snarled. "Listen: this is me telling you what you will not do." I raised the cookbook and tapped him on the nose. Bad cat. -- Ilona Andrews
I feel so much better having this book sitting on my cookbook shelf, just to help balance out the butter and cream being recommended by my array of french cookbooks! -- ChiWei Ranck
One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly. -- Nathan Myhrvold
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
The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight. -- Jerry Falwell
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