Cookery Books Quotes

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

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.

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

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

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.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

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.

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.