Cookery Quotes

• Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Art
  • May
  • Today

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

  

  William Penn
  • Food
  • Stomach
  • Receipts

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

  

  Alexis Soyer
  • Foundation
  • Cookery
  • Sauces

• I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Christmas
  • Mushrooms
  • Library Cart

• He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Patience
  • Cake
  • Wheat

• Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.

  

  Curnonsky
  • Talent
  • Superiority
  • Meals

• No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Art
  • Made
  • Cooking

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

  

  George Ellwanger
  • Culinary
  • Cookery
  • Invigorating

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

  

  George Ellwanger
  • Important
  • Ancient
  • Cookery