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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
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. -- Andrei Codrescu
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've got around 400 cookbooks. -- Heston Blumenthal
I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant. -- Drew Barrymore
Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good. -- Mario Batali
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird. -- Colonel Sanders
Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world. -- Jose Andres Puerta
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked. -- Cheryl Mendelson
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. -- Vincent Schiavelli
I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties. -- Ina Garten
I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that. -- Marcus Samuelsson
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
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
The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess. -- Padma Lakshmi
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
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie. -- Colonel Sanders
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
One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great. -- Alicia Silverstone
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed. -- Emeril Lagasse
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
Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at your disposal. At the very least, you'll always be ready to whip up a green juice or smoothie. -- Kris Carr
I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view. -- Rick Moranis
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
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 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
My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.' -- Debi Mazar
You want happy endings, read cookbooks. -- Dean Young
Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks. -- Lauren Graham
Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks. -- Gershon Legman
I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation. -- Ali Larter
My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks. -- Wolfgang Puck
Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak. -- Isabel Gillies
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. -- L. M. Boyd
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. -- Rex Stout
I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. -- Erma Bombeck
The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home. -- Daniel Boulud
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it. -- Andy Rooney
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings. -- Alexandra Adornetto
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
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
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
cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook. -- Jo Coudert
Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't. -- Marlene Dietrich
That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears. -- Anthony Lane
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
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
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
As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted -- Paul Lynde

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