Do you really want to make risotto to order when you have eight guests sitting there? No. It won't work. Most cookbooks won't tell you that. They will say make it and it will come out perfectly. They should tell you you're probably going to screw it up the first 10 times you make it.
I love old cookbooks. I just got such a kick out of them, how the color would be way off or fake looking. The cook books now look so much like magazines, you'll never make food that looks like that. I'd rather see it the ugly way than they way they do it now.
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.
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.
I've got around 400 cookbooks.
I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.
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.
I keep going back to foundation, heritage cooking techniques from my family in Naples and Abruzzi. There are a lot of traditional dishes from those regions that I want to educate my kids' palates about, to pass down that heritage and that lineage. I think my mom would have been pleasantly surprised and absolutely thrilled to have seen all the cookbooks and all the restaurants and all the television I've done.
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’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.
My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.
Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at your disposal. At the very least, you'll always be ready to whip up a green juice or smoothie.
cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.
