Cookbooks Quotations

She has been a pastry chef and was working there, too. When I talked to her today (Friday), she said her only regret was leaving her cookbooks and recipes behind when she left.

We do a lot of reading. I've got a stack of old Irish cookbooks from my mom, and basically you tweak it from there.

There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.

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.

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

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.

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

I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away.

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