Cookbook Quotes

It is important to view a recipe book as one that you use daily and what we in our family call a living book — a book that you use all the time, not just read once and discard on the shelf. It is in a sense a spell book, a book of magical enchantments, to be consulted, used and altered as needed.

~ The Silver Elves

My cooking spoon,My magic wand, Of this dish,You will be fond.

~ The Silver Elves

Healing Magic I instill,Far Greater this,Than any pill!

~ The Silver Elves

Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

~ Mark Miller

None of this Mad Mario showmanship- orange clogs and Bermuda shorts fit for Babar, sweetbreads garnished with squash blossoms stuffed with cheese from the milk of Angora goats who live in the Pyrenees. Litchi sorbet veined with coconut milk and honey from Crete.

~ Julia Glass

But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen’s clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as ourgame plan ever was—to make food that tasted good.

~ Bjorn Shen

She is my Soul Dog and I totally get it now.

~ Christy Bright

I enjoyed the side bars with fun facts and notable sources for where to get more help. Merrin’s such a fun writer, I’d love to see her invite kids into her kitchen for cooking classes. She’d be perfect in the classroom and would entice children to try new foods. It’s the adults that might need fooling.

~ Cindy Gay