Quotes About Cookery

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

Everything is relative but there is a standard which must not be deviated from, especially with reference to the basic culinary preparations. A. Escoffier The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery

The book of magic is very like the cookery book; the unpracticed student of either can make a terrible hash of things.