Cookbook Quotations

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.

I had this idea that I would write a companion cookbook to 'Barbara the Slut.' The recipes would be like, 'Put the Lucky Charms in the bowl.'

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

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.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

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.

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.'

I met Charlie Trotter before I actually saw him in person; I was 24 when I first opened the pages of Charlie's cookbook 'Charlie Trotter's' and was greeted by a man I would know and admire for the next 20 years.

no cookbook recipes for deciding where the cycle stands.

My family, we are three generations of cookbook writers,

I did not make up the recipes, I simply used a lot of the recipes I have used for years and years and asked for recipes from other people. It's uncomplicated cooking. These are really the recipes we have known and loved and the reason they're in this cookbook is because they're comforting, and that's what we need when there's been a death.

You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.

That cookbook quickly sold out and we've had requests for another. We thought it would be great to honor the 10th annual relay with a new cookbook.

My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.

Our biggest vending machine sellers are The Wok Cookbook and a French-English dictionary.

The cookbook was meant as a fundraiser to help us with construction costs of the chapel. And we can almost say it's the chapel the cookbook built, because it's helping us so much in that regard. Everything we're doing is to try to save the cemetery, everything we're doing is with the hope that more people will come to and visit and appreciate it.

I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!

If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I've had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.

Dawn Wells, who is Mary-Ann, has a cookbook out, which is really a lot of fun. It's got thirteen coconut cream pie recipes.

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.

I told you about the little cookbook and cooking for my family and thinking I would teach cooking when I thought my career wasn't going to take off.

We think it has been the No. 1-selling cookbook since 1930.

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

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

I've got around 400 cookbooks.

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

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.

I am a cookbook fanatic.

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.

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.