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Kissing don't last: cookery do! -- George Meredith
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. -- Marcel Boulestin
Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication. -- Maya Angelou
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. -- Fannie Farmer
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. -- Benjamin Franklin
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. -- Ambrose Bierce
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. -- Marcel Boulestin
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. -- Andre Simon
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. -- Louise Brown
I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80. -- Bonnie Raitt
A crier of green sauce. -- Francois Rabelais
Would the cook were o' my mind! -- William Shakespeare
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. -- Henry George Bohn
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. -- Robert A. Burton
I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world -- Delia Smith
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. -- William Penn
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be. -- Martial
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important. -- George Ellwanger
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied. -- Francois Fenelon
Cookery means"¦English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. -- John Ruskin
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die. -- Mark Twain
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
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! -- Thomas Carlyle
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged. -- Martial
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
Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. -- Fannie Farmer
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined. -- Isabella Beeton
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato. -- Terry Pratchett
I love cookery programmes. -- Cilla Black
I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum. -- Jane Asher
I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world. -- Delia Smith
I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life. -- Anna Chancellor
I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare. -- Lesley Nicol
I love cooking. People seem to enjoy my food, but I absolutely love it. I'm one of those people who will buy a cookery book and take it to bed and read it. -- Polly Walker
I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me. -- Simon Schama
Ten years ago, TV cookery shows were about a man or a woman following recipes. Now, it's all about journeys and campaigns and less about the actual chopping and dicing. That's what I'd like to do with magic. -- Drummond Money-Coutts
I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes. -- Anton du Beke
Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda. -- Martin Parr
I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal. -- Charles Hazlewood
My interest in food really began with a month's cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not an incredible cook, alas, but a real enthusiast. Food and cooking is at the core of entertaining, and my passion grew and grew. -- Pippa Middleton
I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it? -- Lesley Nicol
The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things. -- Jane Asher
If I wasn't an actress, I'd like to cook. I'm pretty obsessed by it. Rome was great in that sense, going to amazing cookery bookshops. No wonder their food is good because the quality and wide range of their produce is so good. It's not fair, really. -- Polly Walker
I would love to do a cookery show and cookery books. I'm not a professional cook, but I can definitely cook. I know the difference between good and bad cooking. I mean, when I was in 'Big Brother' I was the glorified cook of the house, so if I got offered my own show - then why not? -- Shilpa Shetty
Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basics. If I were to write a cookery book, for instance, I would be compelled to say that, to make an omelette, you have to break at least one egg. Actually, that's not a bad idea. Or maybe I should write a sequel and call it 'Bottoms Up?' -- Pippa Middleton
Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery -- John Pilger
It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery. -- Henry David Thoreau
Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner. -- Aldous Huxley
Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. -- Samuel Johnson
Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages. -- Alexis Soyer
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself. -- George Ellwanger
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. -- Barbara Pym
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
No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses. -- Willa Cather
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied -- Francois Fenelon
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
I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love. -- Donald Barthelme
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance. -- Michel de Montaigne
I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops. -- Jane Asher
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world. -- Marie-Antoine Careme
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
Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel. -- William Booth
Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - "When adding eggs, break the shells first. -- Mary Ann Shaffer

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