Grant Achatz Quotes

I would like to, at some point, do a cookbook.

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

I would definitely be interested in doing a cooking show or something related to cooking, and I think probably most immediately, I would do a cookbook.

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

I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.

There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home.

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

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

When I thought I couldn't write recipes, my boss at the time advised, 'Write as you talk.'

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

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

I like to roast things from the inside out. I like to know what's going on.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

To write is to right things. A path will emerge.

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

I cook for a living; I'm not a scheduler.