Top 99 Cookbooks Quotes & Sayings

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!

I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books.

Our shelves are groaning with the amount of cookbooks, it's scary.

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.

I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.

My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks.

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.

If you look at the cookbooks that sell the most, it's almost always people who have their own TV shows.

I have one room off my kitchen filled with nothing but cookbooks and recipes that are sent to me from around the world. Every two years, I have to go through them and pick out ones to send to the local schools. There's a need for books, especially cookbooks.

Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

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.

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.

You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

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.

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

We've done some stand-alone cookbooks that have been very successful, like 'Great Curries,' 'Perfect Pies,' 'Meat Feasts,' so why not 'Chicken & Egg?'

I never cook from cookbooks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.

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

I've got around 400 cookbooks.

I've learned to cook, I've got 'Lean in 15' cookbooks - I even make my own sauces. If I have lasagne, it will be homemade with the sheets. It's a little bit geekish but I enjoy it.

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

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.

I had written two cookbooks, and they had done well, but I wanted to move to fitness, because it's big with me.

I buy way too many cookbooks and read food blogs at night when I can't sleep.

I love the 'Barefoot Contessa' cookbooks - they're so nicely done, and her recipes are beautiful and simple.

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.

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

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

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.

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

I'm quite happy with something foodie or cookbooks - I love cookbooks.

I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.

When I wake up, I'm like, 'I gotta go to Whole Foods.' I'm constantly reading cookbooks; I bring hardcover cookbooks with me on the plane and tag pages. I just have this crazy food obsession.

I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.

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.

My cookbooks are like a personal journey for me, they're like a chapter in my life.

I love cookbooks. I collect them.

I have two bookcases that used to be filled with cookbooks, but now it's mostly books about politics and government. I might just give this all up and run for office.

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them.

Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

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.

I love cookbooks. I certainly have my fair share at home, but I'm a really funny cookbook person: I don't really ever cook out of cookbooks. I like cookbooks for the commentary or the pictures or the history.

Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That's a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, 'If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better.'

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

I've always been a great collector and lover of cookbooks.

I think that maybe growing up and being dyslexic early on, the visual quality of cookbooks specifically was something very enticing to me.