Best Cookbooks Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks.”

“I remember being home alone when I was about 13 and making a souffle from a recipe in one of my mother's old cookbooks. I approached it in a very unafraid way, and produced a rather beautiful one.”

“I think that maybe growing up and being dyslexic early on, the visual quality of cookbooks specifically was something very enticing to me.”

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

“I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.”

“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.”

“On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.”

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

“I'm quite happy with something foodie or cookbooks - I love cookbooks.”

“Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.”

“I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.”

“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 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.”

“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've got around 400 cookbooks.”

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

“I've learned to cook, I've got 'Lean in 15' cookbooks - I even make my own sauces. If I have lasagne, it will be homemade with the sheets. It's a little bit geekish but I enjoy it.”

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

“What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.”

“I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.”