Top 30 Cookbooks Quotes

I love the ‘Barefoot Contessa’ cookbooks – they’re so nicely done, and her recipes are beautiful and simple.

Growing up as a young chef, the cookbooks I had, and I remember, were the Roux brothers. The Roux brothers for me back then – and now! – you know, it’s like gods of cooking.

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

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

If you want to be a home cook, just have fun with it. Pick up a couple cookbooks. You’re gonna make some mistakes; just go in and try it.

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.

I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn’t really work. So then you don’t go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called ‘Back to Basics,’ I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends.

I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids’ palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril’s Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.

I love cookbooks. I collect them.

I had quite a few jobs in Paris before hitting the jackpot and writing cookbooks. One of them was peeling vegetables and prepping other veggie delights at Bob’s Juice Bar.

I’ve seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has to have a story. Some of these people, they open a restaurant, and one year later, there’s a cookbook. There’s not much of a story yet.

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I’m a little bit obsessed.

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.

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

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.

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

When I go out shopping and pass a bookstore, I always grab a couple of cookbooks, so I have a library of them. I end up keeping many that I got years and years ago because they work so well.

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

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

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.

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

I’m a fan of the hand-me-down recipes – friends, family, bake sales, community cookbooks – those are the recipes that have withstood the test of time and fed many hungry fans.

I’ve got around 400 cookbooks.

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.

I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view.

My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it ‘The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.’ It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, ‘Men don’t buy cookbooks.’

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

I’m quite happy with something foodie or cookbooks – I love cookbooks.

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