Cookery Books Quotes:

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

- Louise Brown

topic: Book, Cooking, Eating, Cookery Books, Cookery

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world

- Delia Smith

topic: Book, Magazines, World, Cookery Books, Cookery

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

topic: Reading, Book, Fall, Cookery Books, Cookery

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

source: "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, November 24, 2016.

topic: Book, Often Is, Looks, Cranberries, Quince

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

source: Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

topic: Book, Cooking, Special, Cookery Books, Cookery

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.

- Robert Southey

source: Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.99

topic: Book, Advice, Digestion, Cookery Books, Cookery

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

topic: Book, Reading, Men, Cookery Books

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

source: Eliza Acton (1860). “Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained”, p.11

topic: Book, Needs, Half, Cookery Books