Top 106 Cookery Quotes & Sayings

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery.

I like cookery shows much more than my husband, so I put them on the minute he goes away.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second,Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea--by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned.

I don't do cookery shows to show off, I do it to encourage people. What's the point in going on TV and doing a recipe that no one can replicate?

Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery

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.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

In my opinion, the best of the knockout cookery series is 'MasterChef', which I have watched since Loyd Grossman's day, back in the 1990s.

It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.

I'm not much of a chef, so people keep buying me cookery books to broaden my culinary horizons, but I've not got far past shepherd's pie yet.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

I write cheap recipes for struggling families and single people, and have donated 800 copies of my newest cookery book to food banks and other good causes.

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

A cookery book should be there for inspiration. Recipes should be a guideline, and they shouldn't be cast in stone.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

Jellies are to cold cookery what consommes and stock are to hot. If anything, the former are perhaps more important: for a cold entree - however perfect it may be in itself - is nothing without its accompanying jelly.

I regard Chinese seafood cookery as among the best in the world.

The jambalaya of the American South owes a lot to the cuisines of the islands and western Africa, and it's my favorite of this type of one-pot cookery.

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.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

I am addicted to watching cookery shows.

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?

When I studied at the Parisian cookery school Le Cordon Bleu, making shortcrust pastry was one of the first techniques I learned.

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

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.

I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

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.

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

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

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

The Globes are voted for by anyone in L.A. who's ever written for a foreign newspaper or magazine. That means, like, Romanian cookery writers.

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

I cook every day and find it really relaxing. I've got a huge amount of cookery books. It's usually traditional British and French cooking, but then I'll go off-piste.

I like cookery programmes: Anthony Bourdain going around the world eating stuff; Rick Stein - he's another favourite.

Even in my genre, cookery, just look who gets on the television. Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater. All very nice men. All white middleflclass men.

One thing I don't like is those three-star kitchens where they force the cooks to do exactly the same thing again and again. There has to be an element of chance in cookery.

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.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.

I love cookery programmes.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

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.

My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were the mainstays of my childhood.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

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.

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.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

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.

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.

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.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

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.

My work spaces are the cookery school and all the restaurant kitchens. I eat in the restaurants a lot.

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.