Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.
(About a cookbook. . . ) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor. . . but they ends up Tarts.
Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.
A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.
The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.
Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U. S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.
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.
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
I've got around 400 cookbooks.
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.
I am a cookbook fanatic.
You want happy endings, read cookbooks.
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.
There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.
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.
